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Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness Practice (2016-05-09) – Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversiv…

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance – If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation–actively inquiring into what is happening inside us…

Loving the Life Within Us (retreat talk) – If we don’t love the life we consider “self,” we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in bringing a kind, accepting presence to our inner life, and discov…

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers – (retreat talk) (2016-05-08) – Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped b…

Stress and Everyday Nirvana – Part 2 (2016-07-06) – 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: 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…

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…

Happy for No Reason – Part 2 (2016-05-25) – These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our ful…

Happy for No Reason – Part 1 (2016-05-18) – These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our ful…

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (2016-05-18) – This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as we open to the a…

Conscious Prayer: Finding Refuge in Loving Presence (Retreat talk) (2016-05-11) – Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth…

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…