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Tara Brach podcast

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  Tara Brach  

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.

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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#1422

Inner and Outer Democracy: The Practice of True Inclusion

Happiness and freedom arise as we include all parts of our being in a loving awareness. In this talk we explore how this inner work of inclusion is the grounds of democracy, and how it enables us to participate in our relationships and society in a way that fosters communications, belonging and realization of the greater good.  ... Read more

1 hr Ago

52 MINS

52:26

1 hr Ago

#1421

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence

Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings. ... Read more

19 hrs Ago

19 MINS

19:53

19 hrs Ago

#1420

What is Love Asking from Us? Reflections on Palestine and the Bodhisattva Path With Tara Brach & Gab...

In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path - the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings - they explore the importance of compassion and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and trauma experienced by the Palestinian and Israeli people. This conversation is an invitation to examine our own spiritual practices and to consider how we can embody the Bodhisattva spirit in today's world, breaking the silence and standing in solidarity with all who are suffering. It was offered as part of a series of conversations that accompany a poignant and heartbreaking film - “Where Olive Trees Weep” - about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation.  whereolivetreesweep.com ... Read more

05 Sep 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:05

05 Sep 2024

#1419

Meditation: Touching Peace

This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go. The meditation ends with a beautiful verse from poet Philip Booth: As you float now, where I held you and let go, remember when fear cramps your heart what I told you: lie gently and wide to the light-year stars, lie back, and the sea will hold you. Poem: First Lesson,” by Philip Booth from Lifelines: Selected Poems 1950-1999 (Viking). ... Read more

05 Sep 2024

22 MINS

22:03

05 Sep 2024

#1418

Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2

This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible and whole. ... Read more

29 Aug 2024

58 MINS

58:30

29 Aug 2024

#1417

Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body sitting here. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what's happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention. We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that's here – our senses awake… in wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, open. ... Read more

28 Aug 2024

26 MINS

26:27

28 Aug 2024

#1416

Basic Trust - Part 1

One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives).  ... Read more

22 Aug 2024

57 MINS

57:40

22 Aug 2024

#1415

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on. ... Read more

22 Aug 2024

26 MINS

26:00

22 Aug 2024

#1414

Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. "All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of the love you bear for yourself. All I plead with you is this – make love of yourself perfect. Deny yourself nothing. Give yourself infinity and eternity and discover you do not need them. You are beyond." ~ Sri Nisargadatta ... Read more

15 Aug 2024

46 MINS

46:20

15 Aug 2024

#1413

Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath

This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart. ... Read more

15 Aug 2024

22 MINS

22:59

15 Aug 2024

#1412

Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. ... Read more

08 Aug 2024

49 MINS

49:42

08 Aug 2024

#1411

Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)

When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. ... Read more

08 Aug 2024

20 MINS

20:32

08 Aug 2024

#1410

Love is Always Here

One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385473079/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385473079&linkCode=as2&tag=tarbra-20&linkId=6ab64d58a72b4aa55d6db22a6ac5a8fe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming</a> ... Read more

01 Aug 2024

58 MINS

58:23

01 Aug 2024

#1409

Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)

This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender. ... Read more

01 Aug 2024

19 MINS

19:04

01 Aug 2024

#1408

From Ego to Eco-Identity - Homecoming to Sacred Relationship

Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that awaken intimacy with the non-human world.  ... Read more

25 Jul 2024

49 MINS

49:17

25 Jul 2024

#1407

Meditation: Embodied Awareness

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience. ... Read more

25 Jul 2024

17 MINS

17:23

25 Jul 2024

#1406

From Head to Heart

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart. ... Read more

18 Jul 2024

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:00

18 Jul 2024

#1405

Meditation: Awareness and Flow

This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life. ... Read more

18 Jul 2024

20 MINS

20:17

18 Jul 2024

#1404

Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe – Working with Pain

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.  ... Read more

11 Jul 2024

52 MINS

52:13

11 Jul 2024

#1403

Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)

The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world.  ... Read more

11 Jul 2024

20 MINS

20:00

11 Jul 2024

#1402

Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.  ... Read more

04 Jul 2024

51 MINS

51:12

04 Jul 2024

#1401

Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.)

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds. ... Read more

04 Jul 2024

19 MINS

19:51

04 Jul 2024