Tara Brach

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...

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence - Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of...

Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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Meditation: Whole Body Breathing

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Onc...

Self Forgiveness with RAIN

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Self Forgiveness with RAIN - Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blami...

Meditation: Awake and Alive

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful ...

Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: Universal Expressions of Love

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence - We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan...

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

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - Part 3: Joy – blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, t...

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome - This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that ...

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

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Compassion – Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - Part 2: Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we all...

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home - This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is list...

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

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take...

Meditation: Path of Love

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Path of Love - This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, ...

Responding with Heart to Painful Times: Conversation with Tara & Frank Ostaseski

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Responding with Heart to Painful Times: A Conversation with Tara & Frank Ostaseski - This event includes short talks addressing the suffering so many ...

Meditation: Present Heart

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. Thi...

Relationships - from Reactivity to Rechoosing Love

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Relationships - from Reactivity to Rechoosing Love - Most of us have habitual ways we create separation from others. This talk takes a look at the roo...

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart - Especially when we're stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guide...

Compassion toward Non-Human Animals - A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Compassion toward Non-Human Animals - A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach - The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is c...

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves - By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we began to relax. Rather than fighting the sto...

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2 - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied pre...

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness - Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. Thi...

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied pre...

Meditation: Embodied Spirit

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval - Engaged spirituality means responding to our world's suffering with wisdom and deep care. This talk lo...

Meditation – Compassion Practice – Tonglen

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen - Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, "Awakening Co...

Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence - If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, w...

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditatio...

Radical Acceptance - Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Radical Acceptance - Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - (2022-02-23) - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk e...

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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

Cultivating Loving Kindness

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Cultivating Loving Kindness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives ri...

Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives - This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in re...

Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing - The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, an...

Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness - This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables ...

The Earth is Crying in our Hearts

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Earth is Crying in our Hearts - The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and t...

Meditation: Breathing Through

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Breathing Through - Drawn from a classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, this guided meditation invites us to open to the sufferings...

Living with Courageous Presence

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 und...

Meditation: Know That You're Here

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 meditati...

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

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW) - The Buddhist scriptures describe a mind that "no longer shak...

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

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19) - Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with ...

Compass of Our Heart

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12) - When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In ...

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (...

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

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (2022-01-05) - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in r...

Meditation: What Matters to your Heart?

02 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? - Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are ...

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3 - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging ...

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

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of li...

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

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, an...

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

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22) - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a sc...

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

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, ang...

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

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15) - Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continuall...

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

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2021-12-08) - We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting...

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

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Preparing our Hearts for the Holidays (2021-12-01) - While the holidays can be times of loving celebration, they can also highlight relational conflic...

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

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-12-01) - Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, "Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – tow...

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship - Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explo...

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

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Energy and Source (2021-11-24) - Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided pra...

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

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Recevoir la bonté présente - Méditation de retraite - Rumi à dit : « À chaque fois que vous recevez une gentillesse, tournez-vous vers sa source...

Conversation: Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love: Conversation between Rev Angel Kyodo Williams and Tara Brach - Our happiness and capacity to love fully aris...

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

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (9 min.)

17 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

Fear and Love (retreat talk)

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10) - This RAIN meditation helps us explore pathways to nurturing ourselves in a way that brings profou...

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

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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—...

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

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After the RAIN: Part 1 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness - The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving...

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

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27) - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, th...

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance - If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional rea...

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

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (2021-10-20) - If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living realit...

Grieving and Timeless Love

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Meditation: A Practice of RAIN

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: A Practice of RAIN - The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to d...

Realizing Your Deepest Desires

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Realizing Your Deepest Desires - This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desir...

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Facing Fear in a Traumatized World

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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. Th...

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

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 encount...

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

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by an...

Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22)

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 e...

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara Brach and Kate Johnson

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara and Kate Johnson - The often unseen cause of our difficulties in relationships is the societal structure...

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

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15) - Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness....

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2021-09-08) - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical...

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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-...

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

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Blessings of "Enough" - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 2) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment...

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Blessings of "Enough" - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment...

Meditation: Saying "Yes" to Life

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Saying "Yes" to Life - We are conditioned to scan for "what's wrong" and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This medita...

Humility

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Humility - In Buddhism and most faiths, humility – feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is bo...