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Meditation: Choosing Living Presence
17 mei 2019 · 19 min
Meditation: Choosing Living Presence - A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om's in community – a favorite from Tara's Wednesday night archives). Lees meer
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Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk)
11 mei 2019 · 1 uur 6 min
Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk) - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging (given at the 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat). Lees meer
How I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind that sees me as a single thing.
And I yearn to be held in the great hands of your heart.
Oh let them take me now.
Into your hands I place these fragments, my life, and you my God spend them however you want.
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Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness - a Metta Practice
9 mei 2019 · 16 min
Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness - a Metta Practice - This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of "yes" and then closes with a brief lovingkindness practice. NOTE: a favorite retreat meditation from the archives. Lees meer
Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, "Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go."
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Part 2 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-01)
3 mei 2019 · 55 min
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we've erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01)
3 mei 2019 · 23 min
Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01) - This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. The invitation is to rest in Hereness, fully awake in presence. The meditation ends with a short offering of blessings. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything
26 april 2019 · 51 min
Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (a favorite from the 2014 archives) - Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a defended and controlling egoic self. When present, the solidity and constriction of egoic self dissolves, and our heart is free to respond to life with love, compassion, forgiveness and joy. Note: includes "Duck Meditation" and bricklayer stories. Lees meer
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Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body
26 april 2019 · 20 min
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body - This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness (a special meditation from the archives). Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Part 1 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17)
19 april 2019 · 52 min
Part 1 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we've erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence (2019-04-17)
18 april 2019 · 22 min
Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence (2019-04-17) - In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and the entire field of awareness. We then open to the changing experience of breath, sensations, feelings sound and thoughts. By resting in a wakeful and open heartspace, we can include all the passing waves with ease and tenderness. Lees meer
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Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2 (2019-04-10)
12 april 2019 · 49 min
Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2 (2019-04-10) - It's natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies - such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending - have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Letting Life Be (2019-04-10)
11 april 2019 · 23 min
Meditation: Letting Life Be (2019-04-10) - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the "smile"; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that presence, letting go of any controlling, and simply allow life to be as it is. It's in "letting be" that we come home to the luminosity and tenderness of natural awareness. We close with a verse from Mary Oliver... Lees meer
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Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 (2019-04-03)
5 april 2019 · 50 min
Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 (2019-04-03) - It's natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies - such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending - have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being. Lees meer
Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.
With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2019-04-03)
4 april 2019 · 18 min
Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2019-04-03) - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life - sounds, sensations, aliveness - to live through us, resting in open presence. When there is tightening, holding or confinement in thoughts, we recognize and re-open, letting go into the presence that is always here. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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The Four Remembrances (2019-03-27)
30 maart 2019 · 51 min
The Four Remembrances (2019-03-27) - When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a reactive trance, on our way somewhere else, and lost in problem solving, judgment and worry. This talk reflects on four remembrances or practices - Pausing, Yes to life, Turning toward love, and Resting in awareness - that help us awaken from trance and live true to the loving presence that is our essence. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Saying Yes to Reality (2019-03-27)
28 maart 2019 · 18 min
Meditation: Saying Yes to Reality (2019-03-27) - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that's here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be as it is. As our "Yes" to the changing flow becomes full, we discover the freedom of awake awareness itself. Lees meer
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Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 (2019-03-20)
22 maart 2019 · 51 min
Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 - This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life's surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical and emotional pain, and the gifts of love, wisdom, creativity and aliveness that arise as we learn to fully inhabit these living forms and all our senses with awareness. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Being Here (with OMs) (2019-03-20)
21 maart 2019 · 21 min
Meditation: Being Here (with OMs) (2019-03-20) - We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; relax through our bodies; and then include the changing dance of sounds, sensations and feeling in open awareness. Our practice is to recognize the quality of Hereness, and when we drift, return again to this open presence, relaxing with the changing flow of life. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred - Part 1 (2019-03-13)
16 maart 2019 · 47 min
Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred - Part 1 (2019-03-13) - This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life's surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical and emotional pain, and the gifts of love, wisdom, creativity and aliveness that arise as we learn to fully inhabit these living forms and all our senses with awareness. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the "Smile-Down" (2019-03-13)
14 maart 2019 · 18 min
Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the "Smile-Down" - The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This meditation guides us in the smile-down, and then invites a full opening and resting in openhearted presence. We close by bringing that awake heart to an area of difficulty in our life. Lees meer
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Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 (2019-03-06)
9 maart 2019 · 54 min
Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 (2019-03-06) - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent on others changing; and how to engage with another person when both are dedicated to mindful communication. We also extend our exploration to societal conflict. The talks are accompanied by reflections and meditations that can directly enhance your capacity to respond to conflict from the most wise and caring part of your being. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Relaxing with Life (2019-03-05)
8 maart 2019 · 23 min
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (2019-03-05) - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say "Yes" to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises. Lees meer
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Pt1 - Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart (2019-02-27)
2 maart 2019 · 53 min
Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart - Part 1 (2019-02-27) - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent on others changing; and how to engage with another person when both are dedicated to mindful communication. We also extend our exploration to societal conflict. The talks are accompanied by reflections and meditations that can directly enhance your capacity to respond to conflict from the most wise and caring part of your being. Lees meer
Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.
With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27)
1 maart 2019 · 21 min
Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27) - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, we discover an increasing sense of wholeness and peace. The meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer. Lees meer
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Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (18 min.)
27 februari 2019 · 18 min
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (18 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations - 6, 12, and 18 minutes long - can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing peace to your heart. Each will support you in either calming yourself during the day, or drifting more easily into sleep at night. Lees meer
For more resources, please visit "Community Wisdom on Sleep" at https://www.tarabrach.com/sleep/.
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Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (12 min.)
27 februari 2019 · 12 min
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (12 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations - 6, 12, and 18 minutes long - can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing peace to your heart. Each will support you in either calming yourself during the day, or drifting more easily into sleep at night. Lees meer
For more resources, please visit "Community Wisdom on Sleep" at https://www.tarabrach.com/sleep/.
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Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (6 min.)
27 februari 2019 · 7 min
Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (6 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of 3 guided meditations - 6, 12, and 18 minutes long - can help in quieting your mind, relaxing your body, and bringing peace to your heart. Each will support you in either calming yourself during the day, or drifting more easily into sleep at night. Lees meer
For more resources, please visit "Community Wisdom on Sleep" at https://www.tarabrach.com/sleep/.
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The Sacred Art of Listening
23 februari 2019 · 49 min
The Sacred Art of Listening - Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listening, and the healing that unfolds when we truly feel heard by another (a special talk from the archives). Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Listening to Life
21 februari 2019 · 19 min
Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence (from the archives). Lees meer
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Spiritual Reparenting
15 februari 2019 · 52 min
Spiritual Reparenting (a favorite from the archives) - When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others. We are disconnected from our own body, heart and spirit. Lees meer
This talk explores how meditation offers "spiritual reparenting" as we learn to bring interest, understanding and love to our own inner vulnerability. This process of healing extends to our relationships with others and our larger society – by reaching out to widening circles with interest and care, we bring increasing harmony and peace to our world.
"That question: Where does it hurt? We need to address it to everyone, if we really want to understand each other." Ruby Sales
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence
15 februari 2019 · 19 min
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence - When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through "relaxing back" and reopening our attention to our senses, relaxing through our body, and gently contacting the felt sense in our heart. By repeatedly relaxing back, we become increasingly familiar with the vibrancy, tenderness and openness of true presence. Lees meer
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Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06)
9 februari 2019 · 47 min
Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06) - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and three key steps in cultivating a courageous presence. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: The Practice of RAIN (2019-02-06)
8 februari 2019 · 20 min
Meditation: The Practice of RAIN (2019-02-06) - The acronym RAIN - Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture - guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open hearted presence in the midst of whatever arises. Lees meer
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Earth's Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof (from the Archives)
1 februari 2019 · 53 min
Earth's Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof (from the Archives) - NOTE: Due to the unusually windy and cold weather, we had to cancel class on January 30, 2019. Tara selected this talk from the archives for the podcast as especially appropriate. Lees meer
This talk views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the destruction of our environment, and the inner practices of presence that enable us to respond from love and wisdom.
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Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind
31 januari 2019 · 22 min
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (a favorite from the archives) - We begin with a listening attention, relaxing open, letting sounds wash through. Scanning through and feeling the aliveness of the body, listening to the breath. Not pushing away anything - a very open and relaxed, receptive attention. Sensing what's happening in this present moment. Closing by sensing all in the foreground and in the background - that alert inner stillness, that light of awareness, that which is our deepest, formless nature. Lees meer
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Without Anxiety About Imperfection - featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Brach
25 januari 2019 · 58 min
Without Anxiety About Imperfection - featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Brach (2019-01-23) - Internationally known Buddhist teacher and writer, Haemin Sunim, talks about his new book - Love for Imperfect Things. Then, he and Tara talk together and respond to questions. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Living Loving Awareness
24 januari 2019 · 20 min
Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (2019-01-23) - 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 sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive continuous space filled with the light of awareness. This meditation attunes us to these dimensions of awareness: continuous open space, heart space and full aliveness. We end with a Zen poem that invites us to rest in this living, loving awareness, and know it as home. Lees meer
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Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16)
18 januari 2019 · 50 min
Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16) - The Buddha taught that this whole life - including our thoughts, feelings and actions - arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2016-01-16)
17 januari 2019 · 20 min
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2016-01-16) - 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 when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs - no bell at end). Lees meer
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Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering (2019-01-09)
11 januari 2019 · 56 min
Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering (2019-01-09) - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20" red string.) Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Letting Go…Letting Be (2019-01-09)
10 januari 2019 · 17 min
Meditation: Letting Go…Letting Be (2019-01-09) - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness. Lees meer
Let go of what has passed.
Let go of what may come.
Let go of what is happening now.
Don't try to figure anything out.
Don't try to make anything happen.
Relax, right now, and rest.~ Tilopa
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From Judgment to Self-Compassion (retreat talk) (2018-12-30)
4 januari 2019 · 56 min
From Judgment to Self-Compassion (retreat talk) (2018-12-30) - When we've turned on ourselves with blame and aversion, it's very difficult to arouse self-compassion. This talk looks at the role of nurturing in freeing our hearts, and offers practice in three key steps that enable us to embrace ourselves with a healing presence. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (2018-12-31)
3 januari 2019 · 27 min
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (2018-12-31) (retreat) - We can't truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience (from the 2018 IMCW New Year's Retreat). Lees meer
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Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO
28 december 2018 · 51 min
Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO - There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the archives). Lees meer
Note – This talk is dedicated to Tim Ferriss, who turned me on to the phrase FOMO. Tim exemplifies the creative aliveness of FOMO energy when it's living through someone who's dedicated to being awake, caring and real. Check out his podcasted interview with Tara at: https://youtu.be/pXNEM4wjSmE and his podcast at fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/.
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Meditation: Awakening the Heart - Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings
27 december 2018 · 11 min
Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings - Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover deep communion through offering and letting in love. Lees meer
NOTE: This meditation is a favorite from the archives - from the end of the talk, "Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart – Part 2."
"To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten." Arne Garborg
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A 2018 Winter Solstice Ceremony (2018-12-19)
27 december 2018 · 15 min
A 2018 Winter Solstice Ceremony (2018-12-19) - La Sarmiento and Alli Mosehauer perform dharma spoof songs for the 2018 IMCW Solstice Celebration, followed by a candle light ceremony with Tara and the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW) community. Lees meer
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Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully (2018-12-19)
22 december 2018 · 37 min
Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully (2018-12-19) - This talk looks at three ways of awakening our hearts—seeing goodness, feeling appreciation as a bodily experience, and expressing our care. We are then guided in developing each of these capacities by focusing our attention on someone we care about, with whom we'd like to experience our full potential for loving. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (2018-12-19) -
20 december 2018 · 18 min
Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (2018-12-19) - This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer. Lees meer
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Part 2 - Healing Anxiety - How Meditation Frees Us (2018-12-12)
15 december 2018 · 51 min
Part 2 - Healing Anxiety - How Meditation Frees Us (2018-12-12) - Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives - includes working with sleep issues. Lees meer
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With gratitude and love, Tara
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Meditation: Aware and Alive (2018-12-12)
13 december 2018 · 20 min
Meditation: Aware and Alive (2018-12-12) - Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that includes, and gives rise to this entire creation. Opening in this way allows for homecoming to wholeness and freedom. Lees meer
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Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice
7 december 2018 · 53 min
Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice - A key spiritual inquiry is, "In this moment, what most serves awakening?" Rather than a particular style of meditation practice, it is our way of relating to our experience – our attitude – that frees our hearts. This talk explores the attitudes that are an expression of our innately open, wakeful and loving awareness, and that carry us to realization. (a favorite from the archives) Lees meer
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