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.
Mental Health
Religion & Spirituality
Mindfulness
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Psychology
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Meditation
Buddhism
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 1523
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Part 2 - Wise Intention--Living in Truth
2012-10-10 - Part 2 - Wise Intention--Living in Truth - Evolution has conditioned us to identify as an egoic self and to protect that identity. A key strategy is trying to control how others perceive…
00:53:53 |
Wed 10 Oct 2012
Part 1 - Wise Intention--the Compass of our Hearts
2012-10-03 - Part 1 - Wise Intention--the Compass of our Hearts - One of the most powerful spiritual practices in the world is to reflect on your hearts deepest intention. These two talks look at the…
00:44:57 |
Wed 03 Oct 2012
Part 2 - Embodied Spirit
2012-09-26 - Part 2 - Embodied Spirit - Our body--this changing field of sensation--is a portal into pure Being. These talks explore the resistance we have to embodied presence, the pathways that ena…
00:55:26 |
Wed 26 Sep 2012
Part 1 - Embodied Spirit
2012-09-19 - Part 1 - Embodied Spirit - Our body--this changing field of sensation--is a portal into pure Being. These talks explore the resistance we have to embodied presence, the pathways that ena…
00:51:56 |
Wed 19 Sep 2012
The Freedom of Yes
2012-09-12 - The Freedom of Yes - How do we accept ourselves or others when our actions are causing harm? Does acceptance mean passivity? Does it undermine our efforts towards change? This talk respo…
01:00:24 |
Wed 12 Sep 2012
Trance of the Unreal Other
2012-09-05 - Trance of the Unreal Other - We are conditioned to perceive people as unreal others- two dimensional characters who lack sentience, vulnerability and goodness. This is often most insidio…
00:59:43 |
Wed 05 Sep 2012
Intimacy with Our Inner Life
2012-08-29 - Intimacy with Our Inner Life - Jung wrote that our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can establish a healing presence by recognizin…
00:59:54 |
Wed 29 Aug 2012
Part 2 - 1000 Serious Moves
2012-08-22 - Part 2 - 1000 Serious Moves - We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--res…
00:58:08 |
Wed 22 Aug 2012
1000 Serious Moves
2012-08-15 - 1000 Serious Moves - We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting u…
00:58:14 |
Wed 15 Aug 2012
Real But Not True
2012-08-08 - Real but not True - One of the most liberating realizations is that we don't have to believe our thoughts. In this talk we look at the suffering caused by limiting beliefs--"I am unwort…
00:53:51 |
Wed 08 Aug 2012
Back to the Garden
2012-08-01 - Back to the Garden - The suffering of perceiving ourselves as separate selves expresses as fear, aggression, shame and a host of other afflictive emotions. This talk examines how, by tak…
00:58:43 |
Wed 01 Aug 2012
Listening with an Awake Heart
2012-07-25 - Listening with an Awake Heart - Listening to our inner life and each other is the grounds of healing, intimacy and love. This talk explores the challenges to offering a listening presen…
00:56:49 |
Wed 25 Jul 2012
(retreat talk) Our True Nature--Emptiness Dancing
(retreat talk) 2011-10-12 - Our True Nature--Emptiness Dancing - The most profound question in spiritual life is "who (or what) am I?" This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awarenes…
01:03:59 |
Wed 18 Jul 2012
(from Retreat) Introduction to the Heart Practices
2012-04-28 - Introduction to the Heart Practices - These instructions on the heart practices were given at the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat. A guided lovingkindness or "metta" meditation to open the hear…
00:39:56 |
Wed 11 Jul 2012
Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step
2012-07-04 - Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step - This talk investigates the core conditioning that creates and sustains trance. We then explore two gateways to realizing and inhabiting our t…
00:57:55 |
Wed 04 Jul 2012
Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask
2012-6-27 - Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask - We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit - the love and awareness - that …
00:54:31 |
Wed 27 Jun 2012
Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation)
2012-06-20 - Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation) - Equinimity, the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience, is the grounds for unconditional love and wise action. This talk e…
00:57:44 |
Wed 20 Jun 2012
Committing to Joy
2012-06-13 - Committing to Joy - What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free u…
00:54:10 |
Wed 13 Jun 2012
Cultivating Compassion
2012-06-06 - Cultivating Compassion - We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the way…
00:52:01 |
Wed 06 Jun 2012
Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love
2012-05-30 - Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love - The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four…
00:54:11 |
Wed 30 May 2012
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