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.
1471 episodes transcribedIn this talk, we explore how compassion can arise in the midst of conflict—within our lives and in the larger world. In a conversation with Paul Gilbe...
If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the sense...
Tara is joined by two longtime friends and wonderful teachers, Devon and Nico Hase, to explore their recent book, This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhis...
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...
In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persiste...
In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and...
In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life bridge...
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an...
In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life bridge...
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeli...
How can the simple act of asking a sincere question awaken us from the trance of our habitual thinking? In this talk, Tara Brach explores the transfor...
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience....
Part I - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to...
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. ...
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identi...
We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention wi...
As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and connection. Th...
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again,...
While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is...
In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our mo...
