
Lovingkindness - Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love
Discover the essence of lovingkindness in this first talk of Tara's series, "Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love." This series...
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Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist (mindfulness) meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She is author of Radical Acceptance (2003), and True Refuge (2013). S...

Discover the essence of lovingkindness in this first talk of Tara's series, "Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love." This series...

This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thought...

In the midst of a world that often feels like it's coming apart, what does it mean to truly flourish? Drawing on his new book Born to Flouri...

This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, en...

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 wi...

Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin...

In 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...

If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening...

Tara is joined by two longtime friends and wonderful teachers, Devon and Nico Hase, to explore their recent book, This Messy, Gorgeous Love:...

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...

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...

In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our...

In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose li...

Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation i...

In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose li...

Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to...

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 th...

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all exper...

Part I - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged att...

This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning...

Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense...

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 at...

As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and conne...

This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again a...

While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awarenes...

In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we m...

While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awarenes...

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied...

What might change if you were three degrees friendlier than you are now? Not more accommodating or self-sacrificing, but authentically frien...

This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body...

This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open...

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 libera...

The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and...

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 i...

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 e...

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...

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...

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 aw...

The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reve...

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 bec...

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 bec...

In this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and...

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...

This meditation is adapted from a meditation called "Open Focus." Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you foll...

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'l...

Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sou...

In this wide-ranging and heartfelt conversation, KonMari Club teacher Patty Morrissey sits down with Tara Brach to explore what spirituality...

By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the b...

Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame...

The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan,...