Tara Brach

RAIN of Forgiveness (2015-05-05) – The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness.  This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to h…

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2016-05-04) – Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing th…

Meditation: Spacious Clear Awareness (2016-04-20) (23 min) – This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flo…

Listening with an Awake Heart (2016-04-27) – True listening both
nurtures and expresses evolving consciousness. This talk explores
our ego-based conditioning to have an agenda or defendedness that
prevents deep listening, and the strategies that evolve…

Meditation: Awareness – Listening To and Feeling the Moment
(2016-04-27) –
This meditation awakens a relaxed open presence through the
body. We then widen attention to include sounds, and then relax
back and fully inhabit the awareness that is listenin…

Love is Always Loving Us (2016-04-20) – This talk draws on Christian mystic Henri Nouwen’s book Return of the Prodigal Son. We explore the primary ways we leave home – leave presence, connection, beingness – and the pathways of deep attention and love …

Meditation: Spacious Clear Awareness (2016-04-20) – This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of soun…

Releasing Self-Blame – Pathways to a Forgiving Heart
When we are stuck in blaming, disliking or hating ourselves, we are unable to love our world. This talk explores what underlies our addiction to self-blame and the teachings and practices that loose…

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly (2016-04-13)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting a…

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly (2016-04-13)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting a…

Healing Self-Doubt (2013-10-30) – Siddhartha Gautama’s last challenge before enlightenment was doubt, and to some degree, most of us live with limiting beliefs about our own worthiness and goodness. This talk looks at the tenacity of self-doubt and the…

Healing Self-Doubt (2013-10-30) – Siddhartha Gautama’s last challenge before enlightenment was doubt, and to some degree, most of us live with limiting beliefs about our own worthiness and goodness. This talk looks at the tenacity of self-doubt and the…