Tara Brach

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness - In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer....

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how ...

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care  - This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image o...

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our worl...

Meditation: Embodied Spirit

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation gu...

Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach - Hameed Ali is an author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approac...

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliven...

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1 - This week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron's newest offering, How We Li...

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 2

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World  - Part 2 - Last week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron's newest offering, How We L...

Meditation: Living Presence

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This medit...

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence - The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guid...

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It's what allows us to move through life with a wise...

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into ...

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It's what allows us to move through life with a wise...

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence - This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the ...

Compassion for All Living Beings

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Compassion for All Living Beings - We often talk of widening the circles of compassion. This talk explores the qualities of mature compassion, what bl...

Meditation: Say "Yes" to Life

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation:  Say "Yes" to Life - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is ari...

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk)

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) -  We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of...

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness - This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. We relax open fully to include...

Making the Whole World Your Friend

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Making the Whole World Your Friend - A wonderful translation of the Pali word Metta is friendliness. This talk looks at friendliness through an evolu...

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smi...

Refuge in the Wilderness – Pt 2 - Coming Home to Embodied Presence

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Refuge in the Wilderness - Pt2 – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines ...

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath.  This meditation begins w...

Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at th...

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness - This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then...

The RAIN of Forgiveness

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The RAIN of Forgiveness - The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the...

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attentio...

How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris - It's possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especial...

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the b...

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those livin...

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to eas...

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and profe...

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of ...

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the li...

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning thro...

The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, In...

Realizing Your Deepest Intention

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of i...

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert ...

Freedom Beyond Selfing

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing - preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate s...

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guide...

IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraCo...

Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our tr...

IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraCo...

Meditation: Body and Spirit

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Body and Spirit - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeat...

Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk)

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is "who (or what) am I?" This talk explores ways of ...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us th...

Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation - In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about hi...

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat)

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can't truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the ...

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart - Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosi...

Meditation: Touching Peace

24 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Touching Peace - This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and ...

The Calling of These Times - Part 2

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Calling of These Times - Part 2 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What ...

Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart - In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls fo...

The Calling of These Times - Part 1

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Calling of These Times - Part 1 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What ...

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - We can't truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awaren...

Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively...

Meditation: Befriending Our Experience

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Befriending Our Experience - We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention towards gentleness and...

Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene - What gives us the inner strength to meet life's challenges with resi...

Meditation: At Home in the Moment

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 res...

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2  - It's natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies –...

Meditation: Letting Life Be

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Life Be - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the "smile"; relaxes and awakens through the body; and...

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 - It's natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – ...

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then ...

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2 - While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest i...

Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the ...

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1 - While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest i...

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self - We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This medit...

Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom - Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true ...

Meditation: Saying "Yes" to Reality

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Saying "Yes" to Reality - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that's here. This meditation guides us to relax and awak...

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your unde...

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we ...

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your unde...

Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changi...

Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle's editor-in-chief, James Shaheen - A vegetarian diet, while...

Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our socie...

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan,...

Awakening through Difficult Emotions

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Awakening through Difficult Emotions: "The Poison is the Medicine" - Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in fear, anxiety, anger or shame. This ...

Meditation: Breath by Breath

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us ca...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritu...

Meditation: Listening to Life

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditatio...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire - This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spir...

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and th...

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spir...

Meditation: Living Presence

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This medit...

Awakening from the Landlocked Self

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Awakening from the Landlocked Self - The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. This talk explores the trance of identify...

Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a ...

2022-07-20 - Homecoming to Your True Nature

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

2022-07-20 - Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening beyond the separate, fearful self - Most of us unconsciously identify as a separate, threatened...

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence - The meditation begins with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attenti...

From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence - The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the ...

Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence - This meditation scans through the body - arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, li...

Navigating the Dark Ages

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Navigating the Dark Ages - How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear,...

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention - This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invit...

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2

02 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to...

Meditation: Letting Go

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go - One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotion...

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to...

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:11 min.)

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:11 min.) - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt se...

The Three Steps of Letting Go

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Three Steps of Letting Go - A wonderful inquiry is, "What is between me and openhearted presence?" This talk explores the profound healing and tra...

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body and connecting with inner aliveness and space. W...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred a...

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with th...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred a...