Best Tara Brach Podcasts (2024)

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Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World 51:38

20m ago51:38

51:38

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 in our world? In this talk we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections, and explore several powerful teachings and practices that can serve as the catalyst for profound transformation, an…

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Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart (16:52 min.) 16:52

1h ago16:52

16:52

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 tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives. The post Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart …

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.) 20:11

7d ago20:11

20:11

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 when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own he…

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Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart 16:52

2h ago16:52

16:52

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 tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.By Tara Brach

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 1:00:14

32m ago1:00:14

1:00:14

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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world-- with courageous, wise hearts.By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.) 20:00

7d ago20:00

20:00

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 sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive continuous space filled with the light of awareness. This meditation attunes us to these dimensions of awareness: continuous open space, heart space and f…

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 1:00:13

8d ago1:00:13

1:00:13

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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world– with courageous, wise hearts. Listen to Part 1: Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 The …

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 48:28

6d ago48:28

48:28

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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding - to ourselves, each other and our world - with courageous, wise hearts.By Tara Brach

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.) 20:12

13d ago20:12

20:12

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 when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own he…

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.) 20:11

10d ago20:11

20:11

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 when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own he…

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 48:27

7d ago48:27

48:27

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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding – to ourselves, each other and our world – with courageous, wise hearts. Photo by: Jonathan Foust The post Cultivating a Courageous …

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Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self 58:16

12d ago58:16

58:16

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 explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing - the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakeful…

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Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:12 min.) 20:12

13d ago20:12

20:12

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 and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go …

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Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:13 min.) 20:13

13d ago20:13

20:13

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 and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.By Tara Brach

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Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris 1:11:30

20d ago1:11:30

1:11:30

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 teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and practices that can help us all in responding to our world with as much clarity, equa…

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Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts (10:53 min.) 10:53

21d ago10:53

10:53

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 bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance…

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Guided Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts 10:54

20d ago10:54

10:54

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 bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance…

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Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:34 min.) 15:34

28d ago15:34

15:34

This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.”…

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The Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 1:02:24

28d ago1:02:24

1:02:24

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 age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, …

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The Sacred Work of Bridging Divides - Teachings from Roshi Joan Halifax and Tara Brach 1:04:51

1M ago1:04:51

1:04:51

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 and Roshi Joan look at the cause of divides and their healing through wise contemplation, courageous engagement and the power of imagination. Each lead short reflections that help us bring our own hea…

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Meditation: Resting in Knowing (20:43 min.) 20:43

1M ago20:43

20:43

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 unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence, and learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the blessings of homecoming.…

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Waking up from Bias: A conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta 55:16

2M ago55:16

55:16

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, author and teacher Anurag Gupta offers his wise perspectives and invites Tara to share some of what she has learned in navigating this terrain. We explore how to come into a healing relationship with …

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Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (25:06 min.) 25:06

2M ago25:06

25:06

Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender at…

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Inner and Outer Democracy: The Practice of True Inclusion 52:26

2M ago52:26

52:26

Happiness and freedom arise as we include all parts of our being in a loving awareness. In this talk we explore how this inner work of inclusion is the grounds of democracy, and how it enables us to participate in our relationships and society in a way that fosters communications, belonging and realization of the greater good.…

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Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence 19:53

2M ago19:53

19:53

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 openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.…

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What is Love Asking from Us? Reflections on Palestine and the Bodhisattva Path With Tara Brach & Gabor Mate 1:01:05

2M ago1:01:05

1:01:05

In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path - the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings - they explore the importance of compassion and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and tra…

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Meditation: Touching Peace 22:03

2M ago22:03

22:03

This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go. The meditation ends with a beautiful vers…

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Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:30

2M 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

2M 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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Tara Brach: Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:29

2M ago58:29

58:29

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) 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…

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open 26:26

2M ago26:26

26:26

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) 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 happen…

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Basic Trust - Part 1 57:40

3M 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 26:00

3M 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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Tara Brach: Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves 25:59

3M ago25:59

25:59

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) 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.…

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