2007-12-19 – In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This…
Why “Getting” A Job is a Bad Idea
There’s so much discussion about the struggle for folks to find work, to get a job. And beyond that how can we expect to find something we truly love to do that will also pay the bills? In the process of planning The New Man Life online training which …
The Gift of Silence
2007-09-26 – The Gift of Silence – Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process …
Part 2: The Mystery of Who We Are
2011-07-27 – Part 2: The Mystery of Who We Are – Everything we cherish–love, creativity, wisdom, aliveness– arises out of our capacity to arrive in Beingness. This talk explores the stress that leads us to cut off from our natural state of being, and…
The Joy of Conscious Relationships
2011-07-06 – The Joy of Conscious Relationships (from 2007-09-19) – We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and gives ris…
Soul Recognition – Seeing Past the Mask
2011-06-15 – Soul Recognition – Seeing Past the Mask – We each long to be true to ourselves–to live from the love, creativity and wisdom that is our essence. This talk explores how, by attending to three key domains, we train ourselves to see beyond e…
Remembering Love (Retreat Talk)
2011-05-01 – Remembering Love (from IMCW Spring Retreat) – The habit of self-judgment not only causes emotional pain, it creates a trance that obscures the purity and vastness of our Being. This talk explores how a wakeful and forgiving heart can heal …
Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality
2011-03-16 – Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality – Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground– avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk e…
Trusting Our Secret Beauty
2011-03-09 – Trusting Our Secret Beauty – When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don’t trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt,…
Healing into Life and Death
2011-03-02 – Healing into Life and Death – Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from…
Minting Gold (retreat talk)
2010-12-31 – Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart – Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and the key meditative he…
Evolving Consciousness–Beyond limiting Identities
2011-01-12 – The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mi…
Ask the Friend for Love
2010-12-08 – Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it’s narrow fixation, and the prayer that arises out of our deep heart’s longing. We explore h…
Meditation on Intention
2010-12-08 – This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on “Ask the Friend for Love.” Find more of Tara’s guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new email list there, too.
Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity
2010-11-24 – Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity – Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life–gratitude and generosity–includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart…
Releasing Karmic Patterns
2010-11-10 – Releasing Karmic Patterns – We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfuln…
Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – Introductory Series
2010-10-27 – Part 3 – Mindfulness of Thoughts – The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this awakening. The first is using wise reflection to discer…
The Path of Peace
2007-10-03 – The Path of Peace – Awakening from the Trance of Separation – We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to…
Turning Towards What You Love
2010-07-21 – For many of us, the most apparent junctures of spiritual transformation are spurred on by challenging life situations. This talk looks at how our conscious aspiration for awakening, and our practice of mindful presence, can help us find pe…
The True Revolution
2007-12-19 – In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This…
Stress, Presence and Freedom
2007-10-31 – We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and relaxing with what is arising, can cut through this cond…