Tara Brach

Realizing True Well-Being, Part 1

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and...

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (24:08 min.)

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, "Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness." This meditation guides us t...

Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 2)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fear is a universal human experience, but when it dominates our inner world, it can trap us in a sense of separation and suffering. In this profound t...

Meditation: Relaxing with Life (21:38 min.)

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautifu...

Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 1)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fear is a universal human experience, but when it dominates our inner world, it can trap us in a sense of separation and suffering. In this profound t...

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence (23:49 min.)

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home ...

Freedom from Inner and Outer Tyranny: The Path of Spiritual Warriors

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many agree that this is the most unpredictable and dangerous time we've ever lived through. How do we hold what is unfolding, and respond with courage...

Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min.)

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation reconnect...

Equanimity - Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Part 4: Equanimity - unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the midst of this living, dying world. This series reflects on four prim...

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:56 min.)

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention ...

Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joy blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series reflects on four primary expressions o...

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:40 min.)

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing t...

Compassion - Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability. This series reflects on four...

Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:39 min.)

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing fl...

Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discover the essence of lovingkindness in this first talk of Tara Brach's series, "Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love." This series delv...

Meditation: Living Presence (21:08 min.)

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax...

Meeting these Times with Courageous Love

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many recognize that love is the antidote to the suffering in our divided world, yet finding the path to an open heart can feel more challenging than e...

Meditation: Embodied Metta (19:37 min.)

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and ope...

The Infinite Game - From Self-Improvement to Spiritual Freedom

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While meditation is widely practiced in today's world, many miss the opportunity to tap into its profound potential to awaken the heart and mind. Beyo...

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:20 min)

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This guided meditation practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling...

Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Part 3

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drawn from Tara's book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens th...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:06 min)

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in ...

Part 2 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drawn from Tara's book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens th...

Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immer...

Radical Compassion: Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing, Part 1

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drawn from Tara's book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens...

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:07 min.)

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our ...

The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal g...

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (16:59 min.)

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention...

Short Talk and Meditation: Saying "Yes" to Our Life (11:23 min.)

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation o...

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

25 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue - usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts,...

Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Valarie Kaur

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts? What gives us the...

Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that migh...

Part 2: A Heart that is Ready for Anything - The Gateway of Equanimity

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of cal...

Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19:53 min.)

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our...

A Heart that is Ready for Anything- The Gateway of Equanimity - Part I

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of cal...

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present mom...

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physic...

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (24:08 min.)

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, "Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness." This meditation guides us t...

The Honesty Challenge - Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 others...

Meditation: Vipassana - The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:02 min.)

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear, mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxi...

The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/com...

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:39 min.)

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in ...

Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thich Nhat Hanh said "no mud, no lotus."  How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times-- give rise to a growing compassion and wisd...

Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

During times of great collective stress, it's common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and ...

Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.)

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensation...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and ...

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.)

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 whe...

Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk e...

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:13 min.)

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 an...

Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview, Dan and Tara look at the teach...

Guided Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally br...

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:34 min.)

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive i...

The Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at ...

The Sacred Work of Bridging Divides - Teachings from Roshi Joan Halifax and Tara Brach

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is no more relevant exploration than how we awaken to our connection as family, as belonging to this precious web of life. In their talks, Tara ...

Meditation: Resting in Knowing (20:43 min.)

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that...

Waking up from Bias: A conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, ...

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (25:06 min.)

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash t...

Inner and Outer Democracy: The Practice of True Inclusion

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva pa...

Meditation: Touching Peace

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Basic Trust - Part 1

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, a...

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 th...

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

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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.

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

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

08 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Love is Always Here

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and ...

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

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

From Ego to Eco-Identity - Homecoming to Sacred Relationship

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. T...

Meditation: Embodied Awareness

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

From Head to Heart

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Meditation: Awareness and Flow

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We the...

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

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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—...

Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 feel...

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

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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—...

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

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ou...

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. Th...

For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and...

Beloved Community

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Luther King's term, "Beloved Community," points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the oft...

Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is po...

Disarming Our Hearts - Part 2: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awareness is Our Home

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing fl...

Disarming Our Hearts - Part 1

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we'd dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. ...

Meditation: Body and Spirit

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditatio...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing...

Meditation: Listening to Life

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to ...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing...

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in t...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing ...

Meditation: Living Presence - Experiencing Aliveness and Openheartedness

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a...

Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help...

Guided Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we learn to listen to our inner life without interference, we open to a tender and full experience of presence. This meditation guides us in awak...

Homecoming to Loving Awareness (Retreat talk)

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have strong conditioning to identify as a separate self, and to feel all the fears and attachments that arise from not realizing our true belonging...

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives throug...

Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many are familiar with the Dali Lama's words "My religion is kindness." In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling...

2024-04-24 - Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attentio...