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 transcribedWhile 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...
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence,...
What might change if you were three degrees friendlier than you are now? Not more accommodating or self-sacrificing, but authentically friendlier—to y...
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then...
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awar...
What if hope is not something we cling to—but a capacity we can cultivate? In this talk, we'll explore how hope becomes a healing and liberating force...
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy...
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from "the inside out,...
In this talk, we'll explore what it truly means to find refuge—not through controlling life, but by coming home to the living truth of our experience...
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, brea...
This talk explores how to see past the mask of personality and glimpse the sacred goodness shining through each person we meet. As we become mirrors o...
This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, r...
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 a...
While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can become the co...
While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can become the co...
In this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth...
In this week's talk, we explore the heart practice of generosity—a teaching at the very center of the Buddhist path and a medicine so deeply needed in...
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called "Open Focus." Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along w...
As anxiety, division, and digital distance numb our hearts, we risk losing our ability to truly feel the lives of others. In this talk, we'll explore...
Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash t...
