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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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Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality

Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality

2011-03-16 - Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality - Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding t…
00:54:44  |   Wed 16 Mar 2011
Trusting Our Secret Beauty

Trusting Our Secret Beauty

2011-03-09 - Trusting Our Secret Beauty - When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don't trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the…
00:57:25  |   Wed 09 Mar 2011
Healing into Life and Death

Healing into Life and Death

2011-03-02 - Healing into Life and Death - Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how,…
00:57:35  |   Wed 02 Mar 2011
When We are Lost

When We are Lost

2011-02-23 - When We are Lost - It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also…
00:56:09  |   Wed 23 Feb 2011
Part 2 - The Sure Heart's Release

Part 2 - The Sure Heart's Release

2011-02-16 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and …
00:51:56  |   Wed 16 Feb 2011
The Sure Heart's Release

The Sure Heart's Release

2011-02-09 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and …
00:59:36  |   Wed 09 Feb 2011
Minting Gold (retreat talk)

Minting Gold (retreat talk)

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 26 Jan 2011
Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea

Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea

2011-01-19 - Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea - One of the most illuminating themes in the Buddha's life story was the regular appearance of Mara--god of selfishness and greed, anger and fear, dou…
00:55:37  |   Wed 19 Jan 2011
Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities

Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities

2011-01-12 - The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Bein…
00:54:22  |   Wed 12 Jan 2011
Three Gateways to Freedom

Three Gateways to Freedom

2011-01-05 - This talk invites a contemplation of three archetypal domains of spiritual awakening: Buddha-awareness, Dharma- truth (the way things are), and Sangha-loving relatedness. We explore our …
01:06:12  |   Wed 05 Jan 2011
Path of Transformation

Path of Transformation

2010-12-29 - Awakening arises out of presence with the changing ground of our lives. This talk explores three key gateways to liberating presence: Forgiveness, inner fire (aspiration) and a deep inqu…
01:02:31  |   Wed 29 Dec 2010
The Grounds of Living Compassion

The Grounds of Living Compassion

2009-09-02 - A critical question on the spiritual path is how we can bring the loving presence awakened by meditation into every facet of daily life. This talk explores the conditioning that keeps us…
00:53:25  |   Wed 22 Dec 2010
Seeing Beyond the Veil

Seeing Beyond the Veil

2010-12-15 - The source of our suffering is that we become identified with egoic roles and defenses that separate us from the truth of what we are. This talk explores some of the constricting identit…
00:52:44  |   Wed 15 Dec 2010
Ask the Friend for Love

Ask the Friend for Love

2010-12-08 - Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it's narrow fixation, and the prayer that …
00:57:23  |   Wed 08 Dec 2010
Meditation on Intention

Meditation on Intention

2010-12-08 - This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on "Ask the Friend for Love." Find more of Tara's guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new emai…
00:21:35  |   Wed 08 Dec 2010
A Listening Meditation

A Listening Meditation

2010-11-17 - This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the November 17th talk on "A Listening Presence." Find more of Tara's guided meditations on www.tarabrach.com. Sign up for her new email …

00:26:27  |   Wed 01 Dec 2010
Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity

Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity

2010-11-24 - Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity - Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life--gratitude and generosity--incl…
00:51:12  |   Wed 24 Nov 2010
A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training

A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training

2010-11-17 - A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training - Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing the truth of who we are. This talk focuses on thre…
00:49:19  |   Wed 17 Nov 2010
Releasing Karmic Patterns

Releasing Karmic Patterns

2010-11-10 - Releasing Karmic Patterns - We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this cond…
00:55:24  |   Wed 10 Nov 2010
Part 4 - Living From Presence - Introductory Series

Part 4 - Living From Presence - Introductory Series

2010-11-03 - Part 4 - Living from Presence - Our human potential is to express the wings of presence--mindfulness and lovingkindness--through all facets of daiy living. This talk explores the practic…
01:23:01  |   Wed 03 Nov 2010
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