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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Living with Courageous Pres...

01.27.2022

Living with Courageous Presence - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and ...

Tara Brach episodes:

01.27.2022 Living with Courageous Presence Living with Courageous Presence - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and ...
01.27.2022 Meditation: Know That You're Here Meditation: Know That You're Here - 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 ...
01.20.2022 Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW) Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW) - The Buddhist scriptures describe a mind that “no longer shakes, in a world where everything is shaking.” Our times are deeply stressful and troubling, and we ...
01.20.2022 Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19) Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19) - Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with a reading on silence by Gunilla Norris, and then includes guidance in letting go of tension, opening ...
01.13.2022 Compass of Our Heart Compass of Our Heart - All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, ...
01.13.2022 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12) Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12) - When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice ...
01.06.2022 Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who ...
01.06.2022 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (2022-01-05) Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (2022-01-05) - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go ...
01.02.2022 Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? - Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are invited to attune to the state of our heart and our deepest aspiration.
12.30.2021 Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3 Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3 - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, as ...
12.30.2021 Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings ...
12.23.2021 Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part II (2021-12-22) Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part II (2021-12-22) - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, ...
12.23.2021 Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22) Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22) - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and ...
12.17.2021 Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part I (2021-12-15) Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part I (2021-12-15) - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, ...
12.16.2021 Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15) Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15) - 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 the breath as a home ...
12.09.2021 Awakening from the Trance of Unworthiness - Interview with Tara and Dr. Mark Hyman Awakening from the Trance of Unworthiness - Interview with Tara and Dr. Mark Hyman (2021-12-09) - Our healing and freedom unfolds as we bring radical acceptance - a mindful, allowing presence - to our moments. This interview looks at how ...
12.09.2021 Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2021-12-08) Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2021-12-08) - We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, ...
12.02.2021 Preparing our Hearts for the Holidays (2021-12-01) Preparing our Hearts for the Holidays (2021-12-01) - While the holidays can be times of loving celebration, they can also highlight relational conflicts and challenges. This talk explores how, given the stress of the season, we can bring grace and ...
12.02.2021 Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-12-01) Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-12-01) - Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving ...
11.25.2021 Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship - Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can ...
11.25.2021 Meditation: Energy and Source (2021-11-24) Meditation: Energy and Source (2021-11-24) - Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise to ...
11.21.2021 Recevoir la bonté présente (Méditation de retraite) (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère) Recevoir la bonté présente - Méditation de retraite - Rumi à dit : « À chaque fois que vous recevez une gentillesse, tournez-vous vers sa source, la source de la bienveillance. » Cette méditation nous guide à chercher la Source ...
11.18.2021 Conversation: Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love: Conversation between Rev Angel Kyodo Williams and Tara Brach - Our happiness and capacity to love fully arise as we face and embrace all domains of our existence. In this conversation we ...
11.18.2021 Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17) Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17) - When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt sense of the smile, scanning through the body, ...
11.17.2021 Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.) Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.) - In this short practice we are guided in bringing the mindfulness and self-nurturing of RAIN to a difficult emotion. This helps us shift from feeling stuck and reactive to the tender and spacious ...
11.11.2021 Fear and Love (retreat talk) Fear and Love (2021-11-01) - Only when we face our fears can we discover the freedom to love without holding back. This talk looks at how unprocessed fear contracts our body, heart and mind, and on a societal level is ...
11.11.2021 Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10) Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10) - This RAIN meditation helps us explore pathways to nurturing ourselves in a way that brings profound transformation and healing.
11.05.2021 After the RAIN: Part 2 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness (2021 -11 -03) After the RAIN: Part 2 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness - (2021 -11 -03) - The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the grounds of that awakening, which ...
11.04.2021 Meditation: The Return to Presence - Rest Your Mind in What Is (2021-11-03) Meditation: The Return to Presence - Rest Your Mind In What Is (2021-11-03) - It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing ...
10.28.2021 After the RAIN: Part 1 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness After the RAIN: Part 1 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness - The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of ...
10.28.2021 Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27) Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27) - 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 ...
10.21.2021 Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance 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. ...
10.21.2021 Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (2021-10-20) Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (2021-10-20) - If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom, the awake space of ...
10.15.2021 Grieving and Timeless Love Grieving and Timeless Love - How we relate to change and loss is directly connected to how fully we live and love. This talk looks at the classic ways we avoid opening to the realness of loss, and how our ...
10.14.2021 Meditation: A Practice of RAIN Meditation: A Practice of RAIN - The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of ...
10.08.2021 Realizing Your Deepest Desires Realizing Your Deepest Desires - This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake awareness and love. We explore ways to realize and open to ...
10.07.2021 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 ...
09.30.2021 Facing Fear in a Traumatized World Facing Fear in a Traumatized World (2021-09-29) - Unprocessed fear cuts us off from our full aliveness and spirit, and it separates us from others. This talk looks at how we bring healing to the trauma and deep fears that ...
09.30.2021 Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29) Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29) - In this meditation, we relax and open our body and mind, and then explore an encounter with our Future Self - facing Fear in a Traumatized World is the expression of ...
09.24.2021 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by ...
09.23.2021 Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22) Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22) - 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.
09.17.2021 Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara Brach and Kate Johnson Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara and Kate Johnson - The often unseen cause of our difficulties in relationships is the societal structures that are marked by violence and domination. This conversation looks at what blocks authentic and loving connectedness, and ...
09.16.2021 Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15) Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15) - Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and mind to ...
09.10.2021 A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo - Mark is a spiritual teacher, wonderful poet, and author of many books including best selling "The Book of Awakening." In this wide-ranging and rich conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, ...
09.09.2021 Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2021-09-08) - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising ...
09.03.2021 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, ...
09.02.2021 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 ...
08.27.2021 The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (PT 2) The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 2) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment - habits of fixating ...
08.26.2021 Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence - When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting ...
08.20.2021 The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment—habits of fixating on what's ...

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Tara Brach episodes:

Living with Courageous Presence

Meditation: Know That You're Here

Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW)

Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19)

Compass of Our Heart

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12)

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (2022-01-05)

Meditation: What Matters to your Heart?

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29)

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part II (2021-12-22)

Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22)

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part I (2021-12-15)

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15)

Awakening from the Trance of Unworthiness - Interview with Tara and Dr. Mark Hyman

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2021-12-08)

Preparing our Hearts for the Holidays (2021-12-01)

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-12-01)

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Meditation: Energy and Source (2021-11-24)

Recevoir la bonté présente (Méditation de retraite) (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère)

Conversation: Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love

Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17)

Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.)

Fear and Love (retreat talk)

Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10)

After the RAIN: Part 2 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness (2021 -11 -03)

Meditation: The Return to Presence - Rest Your Mind in What Is (2021-11-03)

After the RAIN: Part 1 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27)

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance

Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (2021-10-20)

Grieving and Timeless Love

Meditation: A Practice of RAIN

Realizing Your Deepest Desires

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go

Facing Fear in a Traumatized World

Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29)

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22)

Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22)

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara Brach and Kate Johnson

Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15)

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying "Yes" to the Moment

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (PT 2)

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1)

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