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
Spiritual
Psychology
Health & Fitness
Audio
Meditation
Buddhism
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 1523
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - Introductory Series
2010-10-27 - Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - The primary element in meditation is training to awaken from the trance of thoughts. This class explores two key ways that mindfulness supports this aw…
01:14:01 |
Wed 27 Oct 2010
Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series
2010-10-20 - Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Our conditioning is to live in a reactive trance of either resisting or become possessed by strong emotions. This reactivity fuels a trance of being se…
01:24:16 |
Wed 20 Oct 2010
Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series
2010-10-13 - Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series - The first session defines meditation and describes the Buddhist teachings that give a context to the path of practice. …
01:18:48 |
Wed 13 Oct 2010
The Path of Peace
2007-10-03 - The Path of Peace - Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tenden…
00:48:35 |
Wed 06 Oct 2010
Loving the Earth
2010-09-29 - Loving the Earth - How is it possible that we humans have wreaked such havoc on this planet, on the web of life that we belong to? This talk explores the ways that egoic consciousness c…
00:49:16 |
Wed 29 Sep 2010
Be All That You Are
2010-09-15 - Be All That You Are - We are conditioned to live in stories that obscure the vastness, goodness and mystery of what we are. This talk explores the ways we construct a limited self-identi…
00:54:28 |
Wed 15 Sep 2010
Equanimity
2010-09-08 - Equanimity - Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clea…
00:49:21 |
Wed 08 Sep 2010
Joy
2010-09-01 - Joy - Joy is an innate capacity, one of the primary expressions of an awakened heart and mind. Yet because of our conditioned patterns of thought and emotion, this capacity for openness,…
01:00:33 |
Wed 01 Sep 2010
Compassion - Responding to Suffering with Care
2010-08-25 - Compassion - Responding to Suffering with Care - Our capacity to respond to ourselves and our world with compassion is the essence of all healing and spiritual awakening. This talk explo…
01:00:03 |
Wed 25 Aug 2010
Metta - Lovingkindness
2010-08-18 - Metta - Lovingkindness - This talk explores what gets in the way of loving presence and the training that awakens and frees our hearts. Please donate at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org…
00:53:36 |
Wed 18 Aug 2010
Blessings of a Forgiving Heart
2010-08-11 - The roots of peace and war are within these very hearts. In the moments that we release blame, we reconnect with the compassionate presence that heals ourselves and others as well. This …
00:54:58 |
Wed 11 Aug 2010
Self-Forgiveness
2010-08-04 - Holding ourselves with a compassionate, forgiving heart is the gateway to healing, and to intimacy with our world. This talk explores our deep conditioning to be at war with ourselves, a…
00:45:50 |
Wed 04 Aug 2010
Trusting Who We Are
2010-07-28 - If we investigate, we will find that much suffering arises out of mistrust--of ourselves, others and life. This talk explores the genesis of the great challenges of doubt and mistrust, a…
00:52:52 |
Wed 28 Jul 2010
Turning Towards What You Love
2010-07-21 - For many of us, the most apparent junctures of spiritual transformation are spurred on by challenging life situations. This talk looks at how our conscious aspiration for awakening, and …
00:54:49 |
Wed 21 Jul 2010
The True Revolution
2007-12-19 - In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being,…
00:22:56 |
Wed 14 Jul 2010
The Power of Mind
2010-07-07 - The Buddha taught that "Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind." This talk explores how our intention and attention can tap into the living awareness that is o…
00:56:36 |
Wed 07 Jul 2010
Stress, Presence and Freedom
2007-10-31 - We are designed to respond to stress with flight/fight/freeze and this can proliferate and then harden into our ongoing response to life. The practice of presence, of recognizing and rel…
00:44:59 |
Wed 30 Jun 2010
Gateways to Happiness
2008-02-06 While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How do we relax and open to the ble…
00:48:09 |
Wed 23 Jun 2010
The Unreal Other
2010-06-09 - When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance and sometimes obvious injury. This talk explores …
00:52:19 |
Wed 09 Jun 2010
Part 2 - Relating Wisely with Fear
2010-06-02 - While fear is essential to survival, it can also strangle our capacity to live fully and awaken spiritually. These two talks explore how fear takes over our lives, and the ways we can tr…
00:56:25 |
Wed 02 Jun 2010
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