Tara Brach

Meditation: Rest in Awake Awareness (2016-07-06) – When we allow the body to be a portal, we discover the ever-present background of awareness that includes the whole play of sensation, sound, aliveness. This meditation awakens us through a body scan, …

Stress and Everyday Nirvana – Part 1 (2016-06-29) – Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way of relating to stress determines our happiness, and …

Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You(2016-06-29) – This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body scan, open to sound, and rest in open awareness, allowing sounds an…

Reconnecting with Our Lives – Healing from Dissociation (2016-06-22) – Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natural for enduring certain situations, the ongoing habit of dissocia…

Meditation: Know That You’re Here (2016-06-22) – We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken through the body, and open the …

Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-11) – Tara responds to questions including deepening our meditation practice, working with desire, and the RAIN practice. Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm an…

Remembering What Matters – Aspiration and Intention (from 2013-01-30) ~ Our conscious aspiration toward awakening is what energizes the spiritual path. This talk reviews the main characteristic of a vital aspiration, the conditioning that obscures our …

Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (2016-05-12) (from retreat) – The Buddha taught the value of gladdening the mind. This meditation begins with an inquiry on what we are most grateful for – what we love, then continues to scan with a smile though the ent…

Three Gestures of Love (2016-06-08) – If we inquire “what is between me and presence” we usually find we’ve been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This talk explores a simple yet powerful way of arousing loving pres…

Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (2016-05-09) – This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness. Includes an application of the RAIN of Compassion to clo…

Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (2016-05-09) – This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness. Includes an application of the RAIN of Compassion to clo…

Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (2016-06-01) – A guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict. Full talk, “Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs” is at: https://www.tarabrach.com/r…