Tara Brach

By Tara Brach

Religion & Spirituality Buddhism

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Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.

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Basic Goodness and Awe: A c...

12.07.2023

Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner - Our conversation covers the biological, evolutionary and cultural bases of human goodness and the centrality of awe in the human experience. We explore the blocks to experiencing ...

Tara Brach episodes:

12.07.2023 Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner - Our conversation covers the biological, evolutionary and cultural bases of human goodness and the centrality of awe in the human experience. We explore the blocks to experiencing ...
12.07.2023 Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless ...
11.30.2023 How Do We Bridge the Divides? How Do We Bridge the Divides? - The divides in our world can only exist if we humans are divided from our own full being and habituated to divides with others. In this reflection we explore bridging inner and relational ...
11.30.2023 Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this ...
11.23.2023 A Generous Heart A Generous Heart - Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of ...
11.23.2023 Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every ...
11.16.2023 Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks: Becoming Happier Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting happier (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey) digs into ...
11.16.2023 Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you ...
11.09.2023 The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment, we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect waves of our being personally, ...
11.09.2023 Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment - When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to ...
11.02.2023 Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly - Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation teacher known for his instructions for effortless mindfulness. Our rich and wide-ranging conversation includes themes of interconnectedness, the natural ...
11.02.2023 Meditation: The Sea of Awareness Meditation: The Sea of Awareness - Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditation guides us in recognizing the awareness that is the background ...
10.26.2023 A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis - Stephen Fulder is a senior Buddhist teacher, author and peace activist who lives and teaches in Israel. In this conversation Stephen shares about ...
10.25.2023 Meditation: Awake and Alive Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving ...
10.19.2023 Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times - When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation - disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other ...
10.19.2023 Meditation: Relaxing with Life Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with ...
10.12.2023 Radical Self-Forgiving Radical Self-Forgiving - When we can’t forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing open the clenched fist of self-blame. As forgiving becomes deep and full, we discover the ...
10.12.2023 Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath, ...
10.05.2023 Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens - In his recent book, The New Saints, Lama Rod Owens offers teachings and practices that awaken our longing for freedom, and help us realize the truth of ...
10.05.2023 Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to ...
09.28.2023 Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness - At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament: an illusion that we are a separate self. This talk explores how this identification as a self obscures our belonging to loving ...
09.28.2023 Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with presence. We then open ...
09.21.2023 Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and meditation, the centrality of acceptance, and the ...
09.21.2023 Meditation: Opening to the Flow Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds that arise and pass away. We ...
09.14.2023 Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and meditation, the centrality of acceptance, and the pathways of ...
09.14.2023 Meditation: Everything Belongs Meditation: Everything Belongs - This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and sounds to come and go. When difficult experiences ...
09.07.2023 Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence - We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways - caught inside the experience of a wanting, guarded, fearful self. This talk ...
09.07.2023 Meditation: At Home in the Moment Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to ...
08.31.2023 The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world - Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with ...
08.31.2023 Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly - 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 attention ...
08.24.2023 The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing - The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in ...
08.24.2023 Meditation: Being a Kind Witness Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness. "A witnessing ...
08.17.2023 Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness - 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 ...
08.17.2023 Meditation: Openhearted Presence Meditation: Openhearted Presence - This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
08.10.2023 Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to ...
08.09.2023 Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice ...
08.03.2023 Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to ...
08.03.2023 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for ...
07.27.2023 Intimacy with Life (Part 2) Intimacy with Life (Part 2) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy - a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
07.27.2023 Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life - The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the sensations, feelings, or ...
07.20.2023 Intimacy with Life - Part 1 Intimacy with Life (Part 1) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy - a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
07.20.2023 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, ...
07.13.2023 Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski Being with Love, Death and Grief - Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given at the Upaya Zen ...
07.13.2023 Meditation: Present Heart Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.
07.06.2023 Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.
07.06.2023 Meditation: From Head to Full Being Meditation: From Head to Full Being - When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual ...
06.29.2023 Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice - This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings; and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking ...
06.29.2023 Meditation: Loving What Is Meditation: Loving What Is - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions to move through us, ...
06.22.2023 Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.
06.22.2023 Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence - This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in open awareness, responding to whatever arises with gentle attention.

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Tara Brach episodes:

Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner

Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing

How Do We Bridge the Divides?

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom

A Generous Heart

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness

Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks: Becoming Happier

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment

Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness

A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis

Meditation: Awake and Alive

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

Radical Self-Forgiving

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan

Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness

Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield

Meditation: Opening to the Flow

Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield

Meditation: Everything Belongs

Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence

Meditation: At Home in the Moment

The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world

Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness

Meditation: Openhearted Presence

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath

Intimacy with Life (Part 2)

Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life

Intimacy with Life - Part 1

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence

Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski

Meditation: Present Heart

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)

Meditation: From Head to Full Being

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice

Meditation: Loving What Is

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence

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