Tara Brach Tara Brach
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- Religião e espiritualidade
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Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
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Beloved Community
Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts.
NOTE: At the same time as the tragic killings in Charleston, SC, Tara’s Wednesday night class was reflecting on racism and the aspiration for Beloved Community. “May we awaken our hearts from the prison of separation; may we seek to end the daily violence, injustice and oppression faced by African Americans.”
Transcript available here: “Beloved Community” – talk by Tara Brach
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Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence
The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.
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Disarming Our Hearts - Part 2: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path
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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 listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life.
From the meditation closing:
As part of closing this meditation, sensing whatever wish or blessing you’d like to offer to yourself right now. What would bring healing happiness your life? Widening that heart space to include someone who is dear to you. Sensing your appreciation for that person’s goodness. Offering your wish, your blessings to them. Sensing the heart as edgeless… boundless… open… including all of life everywhere.
May all beings everywhere be filled with loving presence, held in loving presence.
May all beings everywhere find great and natural peace.
May all beings everywhere be happy, know the natural joy of being alive.
May all beings everywhere awaken and be free.
Namaste -
Disarming Our Hearts - Part 1
If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridging divides with those close in, and opening our hearts to those at a distance who we consider a ‘bad other” or enemy. As we cultivate the capacity for true disarming, we experience a growing sense of belonging, Oneness and the freedom of an awakened heart.
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Meditation: Body and Spirit
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem, "the spirit likes to dress up," from Mary Oliver.
Opiniões de clientes
SoHelpful
Tara has been a great friend during hard times. I hope you enjoy her wisdom too.
Greetings from Brazil
I’ve started to listen to Tara because I found an interview she gave to NPR news. Since then I’ve always listened to her teachings. She gave me so much light in darkness times. I’m truly grateful for her beautiful spirit
Time Traveler
Hi,
From Tim Ferris I learned about Tara Brach. I’ve become a time traveler of sorts because I decided to start with the oldest episodes available on iTunes and work my way to present. I’ve completed the 2010 season, it’s happy 2011 for me. I’ve found great worth in Tara’s lectures/meditation sessions. I walk and listen and I believe I meditate, a walking meditation with bonus conditioning. I understand, feel and experience what she talks about, fits me like a glove. Would join her sanga were it not for the distance.
Thank you Tara, hope I find ways to give back.