Tara Brach
Episodes
The Mystery of Who We Are
20 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-07-20 - The Mystery of Who We Are - The Buddha taught that we suffer because we don't realize who we are. This talk explores two pathways of awak...
The Joy of Conscious Relationships
13 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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 ot...
Flow and Presence
06 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-07-06 - Flow and Presence - In the moments when we are truly happy, there is a sense of both aliveness and presence. This talk reflects on three ...
Compass of the Heart
29 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-06-29 - Compass of the Heart - Are you aware of the intentions that are shaping your thoughts, moods and life experience? This talk explores how ...
Presence and Empowerment
22 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-06-22 - Presence and Empowerment - In the moments we feel threatened, hurt or dissatisfied, we often flip into controlling mode--our body, heart ...
Soul Recognition - Seeing Past the Mask
15 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Art of Listening--Nourishing Loving Relationships
08 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-06-08 - The Art of Listening--Nourishing Loving Relationships - Deep listening is an essential ingredient in intimate, caring relationships. This...
Part 2: Stress and Meditation
01 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-06-01 - Part 2: Stress and Meditation - When we are suffering from stress, we are paying attention to our world in a narrow and rigid way. Throu...
Part 1: Stress and Meditation
25 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-05-25 - Part 1: Stress and Meditation - When we are suffering from stress, we are paying attention to our world in a narrow and rigid way. Throu...
Stepping Out of Time
18 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-05-18 - Stepping Out of Time - We spend much of our life on our way somewhere else, driven by the sense that something is missing or wrong. This ...
The Buddha's Spiritual Awakening
11 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-05-11 - The Buddha's Spiritual Awakening: A Myth For Us All! - In this telling of the Buddha's story, we find archetypes that reveal a universal ...
Remembering Love (Retreat Talk)
01 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-05-01 - Remembering Love (from IMCW Spring Retreat) - The habit of self-judgment not only causes emotional pain, it creates a trance that obscure...
The Blessings of Embodied Awareness
27 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-04-27 - The Blessings of Embodied Awareness - One expression of our suffering is homelessness--feeling cut off from the presence and aliveness th...
Part 2 - Realizing True Well-being
20 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-04-20 - Part 2 -- Realizing True Well-being - Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attenti...
Realizing True Well-being
13 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-04-13 - Part 1 -- Realizing True Well-being - Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attenti...
Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion
30 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-03-30 - Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion - Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional ...
Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion
23 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-03-23 - Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion - Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional ...
Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality
16 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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 lif...
Trusting Our Secret Beauty
09 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Healing into Life and Death
02 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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, happines...
When We are Lost
23 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-02-23 - When We are Lost - It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the...
Part 2 - The Sure Heart's Release
16 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-02-16 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our...
The Sure Heart's Release
09 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-02-09 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our...
Minting Gold (retreat talk)
26 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea
19 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-01-19 - Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea - One of the most illuminating themes in the Buddha's life story was the regular appearance of Mara--...
Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities
12 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
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 u...
Three Gateways to Freedom
05 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
2011-01-05 - This talk invites a contemplation of three archetypal domains of spiritual awakening: Buddha-awareness, Dharma- truth (the way things are...
Path of Transformation
29 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-12-29 - Awakening arises out of presence with the changing ground of our lives. This talk explores three key gateways to liberating presence: For...
The Grounds of Living Compassion
22 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2009-09-02 - A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. ...
Seeing Beyond the Veil
15 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-12-15 - The source of our suffering is that we become identified with egoic roles and defenses that separate us from the truth of what we are. Th...
Ask the Friend for Love
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-12-08 - Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting...
Meditation on Intention
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 meditatio...
A Listening Meditation
01 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-11-17 - This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the November 17th talk on "A Listening Presence." Find more of Tara's guided meditations...
Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-11-24 - Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity - Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressio...
A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training
17 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-11-17 - A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training - Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing th...
Releasing Karmic Patterns
10 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-11-10 - Releasing Karmic Patterns - We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient se...
Part 4 - Living From Presence - Introductory Series
03 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-11-03 - Part 4 - Living from Presence - Our human potential is to express the wings of presence--mindfulness and lovingkindness--through all face...
Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - Introductory Series
27 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-10-27 - Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explor...
Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series
20 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-10-20 - Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emo...
Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series
13 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-10-13 - Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series - The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachi...
The Path of Peace
06 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Loving the Earth
29 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-09-29 - Loving the Earth - How is it possible that we humans have wreaked such havoc on this planet, on the web of life that we belong to? This ...
Be All That You Are
15 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-09-15 - Be All That You Are - We are conditioned to live in stories that obscure the vastness, goodness and mystery of what we are. This talk exp...
Equanimity
08 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-09-08 - Equanimity - Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. ...
Joy
01 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-09-01 - Joy - Joy is an innate capacity, one of the primary expressions of an awakened heart and mind. Yet because of our conditioned patterns of...
Compassion - Responding to Suffering with Care
25 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-08-25 - Compassion - Responding to Suffering with Care - Our capacity to respond to ourselves and our world with compassion is the essence of all...
Metta - Lovingkindness
18 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-08-18 - Metta - Lovingkindness - This talk explores what gets in the way of loving presence and the training that awakens and frees our hearts. P...
Blessings of a Forgiving Heart
11 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-08-11 - The roots of peace and war are within these very hearts. In the moments that we release blame, we reconnect with the compassionate presen...
Self-Forgiveness
04 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-08-04 - Holding ourselves with a compassionate, forgiving heart is the gateway to healing, and to intimacy with our world. This talk explores our...
Trusting Who We Are
28 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-07-28 - If we investigate, we will find that much suffering arises out of mistrust--of ourselves, others and life. This talk explores the genesis...
Turning Towards What You Love
21 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The True Revolution
14 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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 ins...
The Power of Mind
07 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-07-07 - The Buddha taught that "Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind." This talk explores how our intention and atte...
Stress, Presence and Freedom
30 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Gateways to Happiness
23 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-02-06 While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is tr...
The Unreal Other
09 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-06-09 - When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance ...
Part 2 - Relating Wisely with Fear
02 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-06-02 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how ...
Part 1 - Relating Wisely with Fear
26 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-05-26 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how ...
Desire and Spiritual Freedom
19 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-05-19 - The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a w...
Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind"
12 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-05-12 - While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness ...
My Religion is Kindness
05 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-05-28 - The expression of inner freedom is a kind heart. This talk explores how we armor our hearts, and the pathways of awakening our natural ca...
Embodied Spirit
28 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-04-28 - The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how...
True Belonging - Refuge in Presence and Relatedness
21 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-04-21 - We become homesick when our insecurity compels us to find refuge in exclusive affiliations, in over-consuming, in avoiding intimacy or gr...
Part 2-Realizing Our Natural Joy
14 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-04-30 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ...
Part 1-Realizing Our Natural Joy
14 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-04-23 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ...
Beyond Small Self
07 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-04-07 - While we are conditioned to become identified with limited sense of self, we have the capacity to recognize and open to who we are beyond...
Meditation and Healing Trauma
31 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-03-31 - Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This...
The Blessings of Deep Listening
24 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-03-24 - The Blessings of Deep Listening - Our capacity to listen deeply--to our inner life and each other--is the grounds of true understanding a...
Realizing Your True Nature--Four Reflections
17 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-03-17 This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature--our inherent wakefuness, openness and lov...
2008-07-09 - Three Attitudes that Awaken and Free Our Spirit
10 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-07-09 Our predicament is intuiting our true nature--love, awareness--and yet regularly contracting into the self-identity conditioned by wants an...
Trusting Your Basic Goodness
03 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-03-03 - When we don't trust who we are, we are unable to be at home in our world. This talk explores how we come to be at war with ourselves and...
Living Aligned with the Heart
24 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-02-24 - We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways ...
Soul Retrieval
17 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-09-24 - When we become stressed and reactive, we lose contact with our natural spontaneity, wisdom and openheartedness. This talk investigates th...
Turning Towards What you Love
10 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-09-03 - There is a saying: The road to hell is paved with "bad" intentions. From the Buddha we learn the path to freedom arises from wise intenti...
Listening to Our Life
10 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2008-08-27 Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural state--awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening atten...
Deepening Practice
03 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-02-03 - This talk and question/answer format addresses the attitudes and practices that cultivate our natural wisdom and compassion.
Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness
27 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-01-27 - Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness - These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home t...
Part 1 - Presence and Aliveness
20 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-01-20 - Part 1 - Presence and Aliveness - These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home t...
Awakening to the Sacred
13 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-01-13 - Awakening to the Sacred - The tendency to think "life should be different" and to try to control experience removes us from the wisdom an...
2010-01-06 - Taking Refuge
06 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
2010-01-06 - Taking Refuge - The Buddha taught of three archetypal domains in which we awaken presence and realize freedom. In contrast to our habitua...