Tara Brach

Survival of the Nurtured - Our Path to Belonging (2018-11-14)

16 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Survival of the Nurtured - Our Path to Belonging (2018-11-14) - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence o...

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14)

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14) - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through...

Part 2 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-11-07)

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-11-07) - The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, in...

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (2018-11-07)

09 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (2018-11-07) - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body b...

Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)

02 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk) (2018-10-07) - While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering wh...

Meditation: Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (retreat)

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing Our Heart - This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to a...

Part 1 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-10-24)

26 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-10-24) - The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, in...

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (2018-10-24)

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (2018-10-24) - This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken aw...

Part 2 - Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom (2018-10-17)

19 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 - Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom (2018-10-17) -The Buddha said, "I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness an...

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (2018-10-17)

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (2018-10-17) - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this ...

Part 1 - Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom (2018-10-10)

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, "I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom wer...

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2018-10-10)

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and ...

The Sacred Pause

05 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something's wrong or missing. Thi...

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice - Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then restin...

Part 2: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity

28 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2: Impermanence – Awakening Through Insecurity - From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoun...

Reflection: Learning to Stay

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Brief Reflection: Learning to Stay - We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear. "Learning t...

Part 1: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity

21 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity - From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundl...

Meditation: Opening to the Flow

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing wha...

Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-18)

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom - While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the...

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakeni...

Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom

07 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom - Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we hono...

Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home - This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness… (a special from the archives). "No matter how...

Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening

31 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned...

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body - This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body....

Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned...

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness - This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of exp...

Discovering the Power of Prayer (2018-08-15)

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Discovering the Power of Prayer (2018-08-15) - We all know the pain of separation and have a longing for connection. When we silently listen to and co...

Meditation: Presence and Breath (2018-08-15)

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Presence and Breath (2018-08-15) - This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the br...

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 2 (2018-08-08)

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed...

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (2018-08-11)

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (2018-08-11) - Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing i...

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1 (2018-08-01)

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1 (2018-08-01) - Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression....

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2018-08-01)

03 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2018-08-01) - We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. ...

Saying "Yes" - Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25)

27 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Saying "Yes" - Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25) - Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner...

Meditation: Saying Yes to Life (2018-07-25)

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Saying Yes to Life (2018-07-25) - We are conditioned to scan for "what's wrong" and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. ...

What Is It Like Being You? (2018-07-18)

20 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What Is It Like Being You? (2018-07-18) - Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. This talk helps us identify the blocks to c...

Meditation: Breath by Breath - Inviting Relaxation and Ease (2018-07-18)

19 Jul 2018

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 - From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-07-11)

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-07-11) - Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to man...

Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (2018-07-11)

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (2018-07-11) - When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and j...

Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World

06 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World - (A favorite from the archives) Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk loo...

Meditation: Blessings of Love

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a tr...

Evolving Beyond "Unreal Othering" (2018-06-27)

29 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Evolving Beyond "Unreal Othering" (2018-06-27) - What motivates us - as individuals and as a society - to build walls and knowingly hurt others? This ...

Meditation: Opening to the Waves (2018-06-27)

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to the Waves (2018-06-27) - When we are lost in thought, we lose touch with the aliveness and awareness that is always here. This ...

Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence (Retreat Talk)

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence (Retreat Talk) - While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our p...

Meditation: The Silence That's Listening (from retreat)

22 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Silence That's Listening (from retreat) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natura...

Short Talk and Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (retreat)

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Short Talk and Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (retreat) - When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life wit...

Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat)

15 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat) - Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we've held our own being with great compas...

Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk)

08 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk) - Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by re...

Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion (retreat talk)

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion (retreat talk) - We are conditioned to avoid suffering - our own and others. By pulling away, ...

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30)

01 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30) - Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to man...

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30)

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30) - This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a...

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 2 (2018-05-23)

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 2 (2018-05-23) - Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we...

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body (2018-05-23)

25 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body(2018-05-23) - Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a ...

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 1 (2018-05-16)

18 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 1 (2018-05-16) - Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we...

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16)

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16) - This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then w...

Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09)

11 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09) - Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great doma...

Meditation: Intimacy with Life (2018-05-09)

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Intimacy with Life (2018-05-09) - This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and ...

After the RAIN (retreat talk) (2018-04-29)

05 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

After the RAIN (retreat talk) (2018-04-29) - This talk offers an in-depth exploration of RAIN, applying the wings of mindfulness and compassion to pai...

Meditation: Morning on Retreat (2018-05-01)

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Morning on Retreat (2018-05-01) - In this guided meditation we include an overview of different components of mindfulness practice. The re...

Responding to Change with a Wise Heart (2018-04-25)

27 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Responding to Change with a Wise Heart (2018-04-25) - An intrinsic part of spiritual life is facing the truth of impermanence. When we open to the cha...

Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (2018-04-25)

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (2018-04-25) - This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax th...

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 2 (2018-04-18)

20 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 2 (2018-04-18) - Deep listening - to our inner life, each other and our world - is an intrinsic expression of our...

Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (2018-04-18)

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (2018-04-18) - This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sou...

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 1 (2018-04-11)

13 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 1 (2018-04-11) - Deep listening - to our inner life, each other and our world - is an intrinsic expression of our...

Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness (2018-04-11)

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness (2018-04-11) - The capacity to truly listen allows us to realize the vast and sensitive awareness that is...

From Head to Heart (2018-04-04)

06 Apr 2018

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 (2018-04-04)

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awareness and Flow (2018-04-04) - This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment...

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2018-03-28)

30 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2018-03-28) - A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness th...

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2018-03-28)

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2018-03-28) - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills th...

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - (2017-12-30)

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - (2017-12-30) - The sign of spiritual freedom is a deep trust in our essential nature, and in the light of awarene...

Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (retreat)

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (from the 2017 IMCW New Year retreat) - This short talk and guided medit...

Part 2 - Awakening our Body's Awareness (2018-03-14)

16 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 - Awakening our Body's Awareness (2018-03-14) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two class...

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (2018-03-14)

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (2018-03-14) - Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic ...

Part 1 - Awakening our Body's Awareness (2018-03-07)

09 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 - Awakening our Body's Awareness (2018-03-07) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two class...

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (2018-03-07)

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (2018-03-07) - This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional ...

Part 4 - Equanimity - Present Heart - Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-28)

02 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 4 - Equanimity: Present Heart - Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-28) - Equanimity unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the...

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (2018-02-28)

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (2018-02-28) - We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening throug...

Part 3 - Joy - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-21)

23 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 3 - Joy - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-21) - Joy blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to ...

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2018-02-21)

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2018-02-21) - This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive aw...

Part 2 - Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14)

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 – Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14) - Compassion - the tender resonance of heart -  awakens as we a...

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14)

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14) - This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness...

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07}

09 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07) ~ Lovingkindness: We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to...

Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07)

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07) - This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to s...

Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31)

03 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create "bad...

Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (2018-01-31)

02 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice re...

Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24)

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create "bad...

Meditation: Resting in Reality (2018-01-24)

26 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in Reality - This guided practice awakens attention to sensations, sounds, space and aliveness, and encourages a continued "relaxi...

Part 1 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-17)

20 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us - Part 1 - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create "bad other," or "...

Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17)

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17) - We begin with listening and then bring a receptive attention to experience the life o...

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10)

13 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10) - The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of ...

Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10)

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10) - This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliven...

Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom (2018-01-03)

05 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner asp...

New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2018-01-03)

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan...

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28)

29 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28) - We are conditioned to go into a limbic trance—an emotional reactivity to life...

Meditation: Basic Body Scan (2017-12-28)

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2017-12-28) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year retreat, Tara offers an introductory medi...

My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 (2017-12-20)

23 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 ~ Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armored to a fre...

Meditation: "Yes" to Life (2017-12-20)

22 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

2017-12-20 - Meditation: "Yes" to Life (2017-12-20) - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens...

Meditation: Transforming Fear (2017-12-06)

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Transforming Fear - This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to exp...

My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13)

16 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13) - Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armor...

Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness (2017-12-13)

15 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness(2017-12-13) - Learning how to recognize and rest in spaciousness, allows us to discover the love and wakefulne...

Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 2 (2017-12-06)

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

  Awakening from the Trance of Fear-Part 2 (2017-12-06) - While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a t...