Tara Brach

Tara Brach
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Tara Brach

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.

  1. The Honesty Challenge - Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World

    5 DAYS AGO

    The Honesty Challenge - Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World

    Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives.

    57 min
  2. Meditation: Vipassana - The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:02 min.)

    6 DAYS AGO

    Meditation: Vipassana - The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:02 min.)

    Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear, mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.

    18 min
  3. The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD

    15 NOV

    The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD

    This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current times.   This was initially recorded live for those in Kristin’s membership community and includes several question/responses. For more information about Kristin’s community, visit: https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-community/?utm_source=newsletter+&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Tara_Brach

    54 min
  4. Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:39 min.)

    14 NOV

    Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:39 min.)

    Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.

    20 min
  5. Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World

    7 NOV

    Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World

    Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.”  How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times-- give rise to a growing compassion and wisdom in our world?  In this talk we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections, and explore several powerful teachings and practices that can serve as the catalyst for profound transformation, an evolving of wisdom and love, in our collective consciousness.

    52 min
  6. Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart

    7 NOV

    Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart

    During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.

    17 min
  7. Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2

    31 OCT

    Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2

    In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world-- with courageous, wise hearts.

    1 hr
  8. Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.)

    31 OCT

    Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.)

    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.

    20 min
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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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  • Creator
    Tara Brach
  • Years Active
    2007 - 2024
  • Episodes
    1.4K
  • Rating
    Clean
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