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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Meditation
Buddhism
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 1523
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Part 1 - Relating Wisely with Fear
2010-05-26 - 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…
00:59:18 |
Wed 26 May 2010
Desire and Spiritual Freedom
2010-05-19 - The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers th…
00:55:37 |
Wed 19 May 2010
Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind"
2010-05-12 - While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitut…
00:56:51 |
Wed 12 May 2010
My Religion is Kindness
2008-05-28 - The expression of inner freedom is a kind heart. This talk explores how we armor our hearts, and the pathways of awakening our natural capacity for loving unconditionally. The session in…
00:48:03 |
Wed 05 May 2010
Embodied Spirit
2010-04-28 - The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our bod…
00:47:37 |
Wed 28 Apr 2010
True Belonging - Refuge in Presence and Relatedness
2010-04-21 - We become homesick when our insecurity compels us to find refuge in exclusive affiliations, in over-consuming, in avoiding intimacy or grasping tightly to the approval of others. This ta…
00:59:09 |
Wed 21 Apr 2010
Part 2-Realizing Our Natural Joy
2008-04-30 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can cultivate and embody this intrin…
00:45:07 |
Wed 14 Apr 2010
Part 1-Realizing Our Natural Joy
2008-04-23 In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart. In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can cultivate and embody this intrin…
00:49:37 |
Wed 14 Apr 2010
Beyond Small Self
2010-04-07 - While we are conditioned to become identified with limited sense of self, we have the capacity to recognize and open to who we are beyond the self. This talk investigates our most compel…
00:51:21 |
Wed 07 Apr 2010
Meditation and Healing Trauma
2010-03-31 - Spiritual awakening often involves offering a healing presence to the suffering of post traumatic stress or deep emotional wounding. This talk explores the three key elements that suppor…
00:52:05 |
Wed 31 Mar 2010
The Blessings of Deep Listening
2010-03-24 - The Blessings of Deep Listening - Our capacity to listen deeply--to our inner life and each other--is the grounds of true understanding and love. This talk explores the challenges to lis…
00:49:28 |
Wed 24 Mar 2010
Realizing Your True Nature--Four Reflections
2010-03-17 This talk explores a Tibetan teaching through reflection and guided meditations: Our true nature--our inherent wakefuness, openness and love--is closer than we can imagine; it is more prof…
00:54:01 |
Wed 17 Mar 2010
2008-07-09 - Three Attitudes that Awaken and Free Our Spirit
2008-07-09 Our predicament is intuiting our true nature--love, awareness--and yet regularly contracting into the self-identity conditioned by wants and fears. This talk explores three essential and l…
00:48:37 |
Wed 10 Mar 2010
Trusting Your Basic Goodness
2010-03-03 - When we don't trust who we are, we are unable to be at home in our world. This talk explores how we come to be at war with ourselves and the pathway to realizing our basic goodness.
00:48:52 |
Wed 03 Mar 2010
Living Aligned with the Heart
2010-02-24 - We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and others, and live f…
00:50:48 |
Wed 24 Feb 2010
Soul Retrieval
2008-09-24 - When we become stressed and reactive, we lose contact with our natural spontaneity, wisdom and openheartedness. This talk investigates the ways we become caught in the stress-trance and …
00:47:46 |
Wed 17 Feb 2010
Listening to Our Life
2008-08-27 Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural state--awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening attention dissolves the tangles of fear and craving th…
00:54:03 |
Wed 10 Feb 2010
Turning Towards What you Love
2008-09-03 - There is a saying: The road to hell is paved with "bad" intentions. From the Buddha we learn the path to freedom arises from wise intentions. Yet because we habitually grasp after what w…
00:50:19 |
Wed 10 Feb 2010
Deepening Practice
2010-02-03 - This talk and question/answer format addresses the attitudes and practices that cultivate our natural wisdom and compassion.
01:02:44 |
Wed 03 Feb 2010
Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness
2010-01-27 - Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness - These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence a…
00:48:58 |
Wed 27 Jan 2010
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