Best Tara Brach Podcasts (2024)

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Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:30

8m ago58:30

58:30

This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible …

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Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open (26:27 min.) 26:27

18h ago26:27

26:27

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing atten…

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Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open 26:27

18h ago26:27

26:27

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body sitting here. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what's happening moment-to-moment with a kind, a…

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Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:29

1d ago58:29

58:29

This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible …

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Basic Trust - Part 1 57:40

26m ago57:40

57:40

One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives).By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves (25:59 min.) 25:59

10d ago25:59

25:59

By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on. Enjoy a blog from Tara: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves Photo: Shannon Lavery The post…

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Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves 26:00

39m ago26:00

26:00

By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on.By Tara Brach

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Basic Trust – Part 1 57:40

10d ago57:40

57:40

One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives). “To love without holding back – to really sense with the …

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Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 46:20

16d ago46:20

46:20

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. All …

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Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.) 22:59

7d ago22:59

22:59

This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart. Photo: Tara Brach The post Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (22:59 min.) appeared first on Tara Brach.By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath 22:59

8d ago22:59

22:59

This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.By Tara Brach

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Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 49:42

17d ago49:42

49:42

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. Prac…

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Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.) 20:32

19d ago20:32

20:32

When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. “What happens when the …

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Love is Always Here 58:23

23d ago58:23

58:23

One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming…

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Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min) 19:04

1M ago19:04

19:04

This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender. The post Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min) appeared firs…

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From Ego to Eco-Identity - Homecoming to Sacred Relationship 49:17

28d ago49:17

49:17

Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that awaken intimacy with the non-human world.By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Embodied Awareness 17:23

1M ago17:23

17:23

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.By Tara Brach

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From Head to Heart 1:02:00

1M ago1:02:00

1:02:00

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart…

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Meditation: Awareness and Flow 20:17

1M ago20:17

20:17

This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.By Tara Brach

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Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe – Working with Pain 52:13

2M ago52:13

52:13

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 loo…

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Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.) 20:00

2M ago20:00

20:00

The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world.By Tara Brach

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Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe 51:12

2M ago51:12

51:12

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 loo…

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Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.) 19:51

2M ago19:51

19:51

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds.By Tara Brach

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For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings 1:28:27

2M ago1:28:27

1:28:27

The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together. Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media and is founder of lovedog.com, and Drew Webster, …

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Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body 17:59

2M ago17:59

17:59

Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.…

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body 17:58

2M ago17:58

17:58

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest…

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Tara Brach: For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings 1:28:26

2M ago1:28:26

1:28:26

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together.Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media an…

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Beloved Community 55:21

2M ago55:21

55:21

Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts. NOTE: At the same time as the tragic killings in Charleston, SC, Tara’…

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Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence 21:59

2M ago21:59

21:59

The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.…

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence 21:58

2M ago21:58

21:58

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openhear…

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Disarming Our Hearts - Part 2: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path 50:08

3M ago50:08

50:08

By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Awareness is Our Home 21:46

3M ago21:46

21:46

This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation closing: As part o…

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