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 transcribedGratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical...
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...
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear, mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxi...
This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/com...
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...
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 i...
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...
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...
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 sensation...
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...
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and whe...
The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk e...
When we're having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension an...
How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview, Dan and Tara look at the teach...
Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally br...
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive i...
I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at...
There is no more relevant exploration than how we awaken to our connection as family, as belonging to this precious web of life. In their talks, Tara...
Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that...
Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview,...
