Tara Brach

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.

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Update frequency: every 3 days
Average duration: 38 minutes
Episodes: 1523
Years Active: 2010 - 2025

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Guided Meditation: The Dance of Aliveness

2013-06-26 - Guided Meditation: The Dance of Aliveness

00:28:11 | Sat 29 Jun 2013

Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path

2013-06-26 - Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path - This talk looks at the difference between egoic hopes and fears, and the quality of hopefulness ("holy hope") that is an essential demension in spir…

00:54:57 | Sat 29 Jun 2013

The Bodisattva Path: Widening Circles of Compassion

2009-05-07 - Bodhisattva Path - Widening Circles of Compassion - A bodhisattva (awakened being) is committed to relieving suffering and living life from an all inclusive loving presence. This shift …

01:02:29 | Fri 21 Jun 2013

Awakening from Virtual Reality

2009-05-02 - (retreat talk) Awakening from Virtual Reality - This talk examines how we get stuck in identifying as a separate, deficient self, and the way that a deep attention frees us from trance.

01:00:12 | Sat 15 Jun 2013

Longing to Belong

Tara is away this week. Enjoy a favorite talk from 12/9/2009. Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving related…

00:54:29 | Sat 08 Jun 2013

Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out of Your Own Way"

2013-05-29 - Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out Of Your Own Way" - The depth and vitality of a meditation practice depends on our sincerity, and an attitude of curiosity and friendliness. With this…

00:52:59 | Sat 01 Jun 2013

Being to Being - Loving Beyond the Trance

2013-05-22 - Being to Being - Loving Beyond the Trance - We have strong conditioning to relate to each other from a sense of separateness--persona to persona. This talk looks at what traps us in egoi…

00:59:03 | Sat 25 May 2013

2013-05-15 Guided Meditation: Open, Wakeful Presence

00:23:48 | Fri 17 May 2013

Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Loving

2013-05-15 - Releasing the Barriors to Unconditional Loving - We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlova…

00:59:13 | Fri 17 May 2013

2013-05-08-Meditation-Coming-Home-to-Being

2013-05-08 - Meditation: Coming Home to Being - Enjoy the meditation prior to the talk at Tara's Wednesday night's class at RRUUC.

00:21:19 | Sat 11 May 2013

Remembering Being

2013-05-08 - Remembering Being - Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual co…

00:53:34 | Sat 11 May 2013

Loving Ourselves (Retreat Talk)

2013-04-28 - Retreat Talk: Loving Ourselves - The greatest truths we forget, and one of them is that if we don't love the life that is right here--what we perceive as self--we are unable to embrace o…

00:59:04 | Sun 05 May 2013

Letting Go Into Living and Dying

2013-04-24 - Letting Go Into Living and Dying - Our capacity to live and love fully is directly related to our acceptance of change and loss. This talk explores how we avoid the pain of loss, ways of…

00:56:13 | Thu 25 Apr 2013

2013-04-17 - Entering the Mystery

2013-04-17 - Entering the Mystery - John O'Donahue writes, "We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in." This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the myst…

00:53:06 | Wed 17 Apr 2013

Heavenly Messengers

2013-04-10 - Heavenly Messengers - Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice, on a contemplative approach to death and dying. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.co…

01:01:18 | Wed 10 Apr 2013

Part 3: Three Blessings - Looking Into the Mirror

2013-04-03 - Part 3: Three Blessings - Looking In the Mirror - The third gift on the journey of awakening is the mirror. In this talk we explore how to look back into our own minds and discover the t…

00:52:55 | Wed 03 Apr 2013

Part 2: Three Blessings - Inner Fire

2013-03-27 - Part 2: Three Blessings - Inner Fire - Each of us has the longing to manifest our full potential--to realize and live from loving, awake awareness. This longing is our inner fire, and wh…

00:53:31 | Wed 27 Mar 2013

(retreat talk) Self Compassion

2009-10-26 - (retreat talk) Self Compassion - We can only find love and peace in this life if we are able to hold our inner life with compassion. This talk explores the subtle and therefore often uns…

00:58:32 | Wed 20 Mar 2013

Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness

2013-03-13 - Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness - In this two part series we explore the evolution of consciousness through the lens of three key capacities: A forgiving heart, inner …

00:52:57 | Wed 13 Mar 2013

(retreat talk) Minting Gold - Embodying the Awakened Heart

2010-12-31 - Minting Gold - Embodying the Awakened Heart - Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create th…

01:05:45 | Wed 06 Mar 2013

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