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  1. Embodied Awareness - Embracing the Unlived Life - Part 2 (2016-03-23)

    26 maart 2016 · 51 min

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    Embodied Awareness - Embracing the Unlived Life - Part 2 (2016-03-23) - When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation - including the cutting off that comes from trauma - and the suffering of “unlived life” that this creates. We then look at how practices of mindfulness and compassion, guided by the acronym RAIN, enable us to re-enter our bodies, and discover the creativity, love and wisdom that naturally flow from embodied awareness. Lees meer

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks 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

  2. Meditation: Living Presence (2016-03-23) (20:01 min)

    25 maart 2016 · 20 min

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    Meditation: Living Presence (2016-03-23) (20:01 min) - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order to calm and collect the mind. Then continuing with the conscious breathing, we are guided through the body - bringing attention to sensations and space. This attention becomes a very vibrant living presence, and we end by experiencing that living presence as a natural openheartedness that includes all of life. Lees meer

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    With thanks and love, Tara

  3. Reflection: Awakening through Conflict (13 min)

    19 maart 2016 · 13 min

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    Guided Reflection: Awakening through Conflict (from a talk given on 2014-04-23) - (13 min) Lees meer

    “We live in a field where our emotions are an open loop – we affect each other. When we’re with someone who’s blaming, we tighten. Anger makes us tighten. When we’re with someone who’s open and caring, we become more open. It’s very, very powerful what’s possible when we put down the blame and we connect with our own being.”

    A guided reflection: If we learn to release blame and deepen attention to our embodied experience, conflict can become a portal for more loving, alive relationships and awakening into the fullness of our being.

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    With thanks and love, Tara

  4. Practical Dharma for Stressful Times (2016-03-16)

    18 maart 2016 · 59 min

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    Practical Dharma for Stressful Times (2016-03-16) - Lees meer

    When we are caught in a stress reaction, we are in a trance that cuts us off from our creativity, full intelligence and capacity to be loving. This talk explores the flags of the stress-trance and three meditative strategies for shifting from fight/flight to attend/befriend. (at end is “Love the One You’re With” by Steven Stills)

    Tara was traveling this week and asked this very timely talk from November 07, 2012 be posted.

  5. Meditation: Touching Peace - with a Smile (2015-08-19)

    18 maart 2016 · 22 min

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    Meditation: Touching Peace - with a Smile (2015-08-19) - Tara is traveling this week, so asked that this "smile meditation" be posted.

  6. Embodied Awareness - Embracing Unlived Life - Part 1 (2016-03-09)

    12 maart 2016 · 54 min

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    Embodied Awareness - Embracing Unlived Life - Part 1 (2016-03-09) Lees meer

    When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation, and the suffering of “unlived life” that this creates. We then look at how practices of mindfulness and compassion, guided by the acronym RAIN, enable us to re-enter our bodies, and discover the creativity, love and wisdom that naturally flow from embodied awareness.

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  7. Reflection: RAIN - Entering the Wilderness (2016-03-09)

    12 maart 2016 · 10 min

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    Meditation: RAIN - Entering the Wilderness (2016-03-09) - This short reflection, guided by the acronym RAIN, engages mindfulness and compassion as we open to life that we’ve been pushing away. By including unlived life, we reconnect with the fullness of our being, with vibrant, loving awareness. Lees meer

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  8. Meditation: Embodied Awareness (2016-03-09)

    11 maart 2016 · 22 min

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    Meditation: Embodied Awareness (2016-03-09) - This meditation reconnects us to the vibratory aliveness of our bodies, and the space of awareness that suffuses that aliveness. We inhabit embodied awareness in the moments of non-doing, of simply resting as wakeful openness, of pure Being. Lees meer

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    With thanks and love, Tara

  9. Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 2 (2016-03-02)

    5 maart 2016 · 1 uur

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    Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 2 (2016-03-02) Lees meer

    While the brightness and warmth of our hearts is always here, like the sun when blocked by clouds, our intrinsic love can be obscured. These two talks explore how we become arrested in a confining story of separate self, and how remembering love releases us from this trance. The first talk emphasizes inner pathways of freeing our heart and the second talk explores awakening bodhichitta actively in relating with each other.

    "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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    With thanks and love, Tara

  10. Meditation: Awakening the Heart - Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (2016-03-02)

    5 maart 2016 · 11 min

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    Meditation: Awakening the Heart - Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (2016-03-02) - Lees meer

    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.

    "To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten." Arne Garborg

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donate/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  11. Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (2016-03-02)

    4 maart 2016 · 20 min

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    Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (2016-03-02) - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body, and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include sounds and sense the openness of life. At the center of the practice is a relaxing back, and inhabiting spacious awareness. The meditation ends as we experience the heart from the vantage of spacious awareness, and offer prayers to our inner life and all life. Lees meer
  12. Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 1 (2016-02-24)

    27 februari 2016 · 56 min

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    Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 1 (2016-02-24) - While the brightness and warmth of our hearts is always here, like the sun when blocked by clouds, our intrinsic love can be obscured. These two talks explore how we become arrested in a confining story of separate self, and how remembering love releases us from this trance. The first talk emphasizes inner pathways of freeing our heart and the second talk explores awakening bodhichitta actively in relating with each other. Lees meer

    "Exploring what allows the heart to wake up..."

    "...being loved into being more who we are is a moment of blessing. What is a blessing? A blessing is a reminder or homecoming into more realness - more love. We're blessed when we remember."

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  13. Meditation: Blessings of Love (2016-02-24)

    27 februari 2016 · 12 min

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    Meditation: Blessings of Love (2016-02-24) - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable tender place within us that longs to feel loved, and call on loving presence to bless us. By imagining and allowing ourselves to receive love, our hearts become open and filled with light. We then bring that inner loving presence fully alive as we offer blessings to other beings. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken our heart. Lees meer

    "...being loved into being more who we are is a moment of blessing. What is a blessing? A blessing is a reminder or homecoming into more realness - more love. We're blessed when we remember."

    "Part of what keeps us from realness - in that small self identity - is the avoiding of what's here."

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  14. Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24)

    27 februari 2016 · 22 min

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    Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24) - The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that everything’s happening in; the space that lets everything be, just as it is. It’s in that full allowing that we discover the center of now, that pure still presence that is the very source of our being. The meditation ends with an offering of prayer as that presence is experienced in the domain of the heart. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  15. The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2 (2016-02-17)

    20 februari 2016 · 54 min

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    The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2 (2016-02-17) - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening. Lees meer

    "If we don't bring inquiry from the neck down, we cannot untangle the tangles. Our emotional life lives in our body, so inquiry needs to be embodied. One of the misconceptions of inquiry is that it's analytic - that it's conceptual... it's not. Inquiry is shining the light of awareness to what's actually happening - moment to moment in our bodies."

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  16. Meditation: Embodied Awareness (2016-02-17)

    19 februari 2016 · 18 min

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    This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  17. Reflection: The Power of Inquiry - Untangling Emotional Tangles (2016-02-10)

    13 februari 2016 · 10 min

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    Reflection: The Power of Inquiry - Untangling Emotional Tangles (2016-02-10) - This short meditation helps us get unstuck from emotional difficulty with the practice of Inquiry. We use the acronym RAIN as a guide, starting with Recognizing and Allowing what is arising, and then systematically Investigating (through inquiry) the limiting beliefs and reactive feelings that are challenging. The meditation ends by offering Nourishment to our vulnerability with kindness, and discovering the shift in our own being…in our identity…that expresses increased freedom. Lees meer

    (From the end of Part 1: The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening)

  18. The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1 (2016-02-10)

    13 februari 2016 · 52 min

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    The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening (2016-02-10) - Parts I and II - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening. Lees meer

    "True inquiry doesn't land on an answer. It opens to a mystery that's meant to be lived."

  19. Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (2016-02-10)

    13 februari 2016 · 25 min

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    Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (2016-02-10) - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake awareness, and to inhabiting that boundless receptive awareness that is our home. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  20. Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness

    12 februari 2016 · 22 min

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    Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness(2016-02-10) - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake awareness, and to inhabiting that boundless receptive awareness that is our home. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  21. Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice (2016-02-03)

    5 februari 2016 · 53 min

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    Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice (2016-02-03) - 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. Lees meer
  22. Meditation - Space, Aliveness and Letting Be (2016-02-03)

    5 februari 2016 · 25 min

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    Meditation - Space, Aliveness and Letting Be (2016-02-03) - This practice guides us into the openness of awareness, and then invites a deep resting, a letting be. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  23. Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey

    28 januari 2016 · 55 min

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    Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey - Drawing on a wonderful teaching story from the Upanishads, these two talks explore the role of forgiveness, inner fire and looking at our own minds, in finding freedom. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  24. Meditation: Center of Now (2012-02-01)

    28 januari 2016 · 24 min

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    Meditation: Center of Now (2012-02-01) - Tara is on retreat, so asked for a meditation from the archives to be posted.

  25. Part 1: Three Blessings on the Journey

    22 januari 2016 · 58 min

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    Part 1: Three Blessings on the Journey - Drawing on a wonderful teaching story from the Upanishads, these two talks explore the role of forgiveness, inner fire and looking at our own minds, in finding freedom. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  26. Morning Meditation Instruction with Question and Response (retreat)(14 min)

    22 januari 2016 · 14 min

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    Morning Meditation Instruction with Question and Response (retreat) (2015-12-29) - "Discover what’s happening here, beyond the veil of thinking.” Tara gives additional instructions and responds to questions after the morning meditation at the 2015 IMCW New Year retreat. Lees meer
  27. Widening the Circles of Compassion (retreat talk) (2015-12-31)

    15 januari 2016 · 1 uur 8 min

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    Widening the Circles of Compassion (retreat talk) (2015-12-31) - The archetypal figure of the Bodhisattva ("awakening being") reflects our potential to realize our connectedness with all beings, and care for this living world with an open tender heart. This talk explores the four types of patterning that keep us stuck in the pain of separation and the key heart practices that evolve us on the bodhisattva path. Lees meer

    "Compassion arises when you see the truth behind the veils."

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

    With thanks and love, Tara

  28. Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (retreat) (2015-12-29)

    15 januari 2016 · 35 min

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    Meditation: RAIN of Compassion (retreat) (2015-12-29) - This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others. (from the 2015 New Year's retreat - a guided heart meditation) Lees meer
  29. Gateways of Remembrance: The Three Refuges (2016-01-06)

    9 januari 2016 · 1 uur

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    Gateways of Remembrance: The Three Refuges (2016-01-06) - This talk explores the traditional refuges of awareness (buddha nature), truth (dharma) and love (sangha) that are at the heart of Buddhism, and found in many spiritual and religious traditions. It includes a look at our false refuges - strategies that seek to comfort and gratify, but are temporary fixes - and moves into reflections that help us remember, trust and live from our true nature. (Concludes with a ceremony tying red cords in remembrance of the refuges.) Lees meer
  30. Meditation: Relaxing Open (2016-01-06)

    7 januari 2016 · 18 min

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    Meditation: Relaxing Open (2016-01-06) 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

  31. The Power of Mindful Investigation (from 2010-09-22)

    30 december 2015 · 57 min

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    The Power of Mindful Investigation (from 2010-09-22) - We each have a deep interest in reality–in understanding what is true and who we are. In Buddhist teachings, our interest, and its expression in wise investigation, energize the path of awakening. This talk explores how mindful investigation can free us from emotional suffering, nourish loving relatedness and create the conditions for deep spiritual realization. Lees meer

    (Tara is on retreat this week, so she asked to share this talk from 2010.)

  32. Meditation: Letting Life Be (from 2010-09-22)

    30 december 2015 · 19 min

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    Meditation: Letting Life Be (from 2010-09-22) - Tara is teaching retreat this week, so wanted to share this meditation from 2010 with you.

  33. Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (2015-12-23) (6:11 min)

    28 december 2015 · 6 min

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    Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (2015-12-23) (6:11 min) - When we focus on what we appreciate in others, our very attention helps allow that person to shine (a practice meditation from the end of the "Secret Beauty - Solstice talk").

  34. Reflection: Learning to Stay (2015-12-23) (4:30 min)

    27 december 2015 · 5 min

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    Reflection: Learning to Stay (2015-12-23) (4:30 min) - We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear (from "Secret Beauty - Solstice talk).

  35. Secret Beauty - Solstice Talk (2015-12-23)

    26 december 2015 · 42 min

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    Secret Beauty - Solstice Talk (2015-12-23) - This solstice talk explores two pathways to realizing the Secret Beauty that is our essence. One is through the compassion that arises when we stay with vulnerability and suffering, and the other is through love that arises as we learn to see the goodness that shines through all beings. Lees meer

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With thanks and love, Tara

  36. Meditation: Awaken to HeartSpace (2015-12-23)

    25 december 2015 · 23 min

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    Meditation: Awaken to HeartSpace (2015-12-23) - Awaken to HeartSpace, the open awareness that is intrinsically tender and wakeful, and discover how to experience this life from the domain of heart.

  37. Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (2015-12-16)

    22 december 2015 · 11 min

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    This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces this guided meditation based on a new version of the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering of being at war with ourselves. Lees meer

    To listen to the complete talk, go to: The RAIN of Self-Compassion.

  38. The RAIN of Self-Compassion (2015-12-16)

    17 december 2015 · 56 min

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    This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces a guided meditation based on a new version of the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering of being at war with ourselves.

  39. Meditation: Aliveness, Space and Awareness (2015-12-16)

    17 december 2015 · 22 min

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    This practice includes a body scan that opens into experience of continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  40. Desire: A Current of Homecoming (2015-12-09)

    12 december 2015 · 58 min

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    Desire: A Current of Homecoming (2015-12-09) - Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to bring mindfulness and compassion to the roots of desire, and be carried home to open loving presence. Lees meer

    “Recovery is also about spirit – about dealing with that ‘hole in the soul’ … so how does this hole get filled and become holy space?”

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  41. Meditation: Calming and Opening (2015-12-09)

    11 december 2015 · 14 min

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    Meditation: Calming and Opening (2015-12-09) - This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara's new 10 min meditation: "Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease" when you join her email list.

  42. Meditation: Choosing Living Presence

    3 december 2015 · 24 min

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    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  43. Loving Life, Loving Earth

    3 december 2015 · 45 min

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    With prayers for the Paris Climate talks: What will it take to have us collectively awaken to the suffering of our earth and respond? This talk looks at how we are destroying our larger body, the earth; what stops us from recognizing and opening to the suffering of loss, and ways we can evolve our consciousness and act on behalf of this precious life. (from 2013-10-02) Lees meer
  44. Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love (2015-11-25)

    28 november 2015 · 57 min

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    Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love - Thanksgiving 2015 (2015-11-25) - Like breathing in and breathing out, gratitude and generosity allow us to live fully. This talks explores what blocks these natural capacities, and three pathways of nourishing a grateful and giving heart. Lees meer

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    Join Tara’s email list: http://eepurl.com/6YfI - get a free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease”.

    Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With thanks and love, Tara

  45. Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (2015-11-25)

    28 november 2015 · 23 min

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    Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (2015-11-25) Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  46. Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with Oms) (2015-11-25)

    28 november 2015 · 28 min

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    Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with community chanting Om's) (2015-11-25) Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  47. Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat)(2015-10-12)

    23 november 2015 · 34 min

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    Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat)(2015-10-12) - Scanning the body, filling it with the image of a smile, meditation continues with loving presence of someone easy to love, our own being, and offering care to others.

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

    21 november 2015 · 54 min

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    Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-18) - While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the capacity to pause, and instead deepen attention and connect to our natural wisdom and empathy. This talk looks at how we can directly engage in this evolutionary adaptation when we encounter trauma related conflict in our personal lives, and in a parallel way when groups of people who have been part of traumatizing conflict seek reconciliation and healing. Lees meer

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

  49. Instructions on Working with Trauma - Q and A from Retreat (2015-04-20)

    20 november 2015 · 13 min

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    Instructions on Working with Trauma - Q and A from Retreat (2015-04-20) - a short segment that includes a message on working with trauma as part of a morning question-response session at the IMCW 2015 Spring Retreat.

  50. Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-11)

    13 november 2015 · 57 min

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    Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-11) - Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get hijacked into emotional reactivity that creates suffering in our individual and collective lives? This talk explores the U-turn that enables us to offer a healing attention to the feelings and unmet needs under anger. Once present with our inner life, we are able to respond to those around us with wisdom, empathy and true strength. Lees meer

    “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
    ― Mark Twain

    Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.