The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.

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Cultivating Loving Kindness

This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given on retreat).

Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives

This meditation cultivates a non-judgmental, lucid present-centered attention and gives rise to our natural wisdom and compassion. For more, visit http://www.tarabrach.com/audioarchives-guided-meditations.html.

Vipassana (Basic Mindfulness) Meditation

We come home to presence by awakening to the life in our body, relaxing, and saying yes to our moment to moment experience.  Find more at: http://www.tarabrach.com

Meditation: Gateway to Presence

We reconnect with our Beingness by awakening our senses, and discovering in the background the silence and stillness that holds our life. http://www.tarabrach.com

Meditation: Coming Home to Being

Rumi poem, "Surrender," from Tara's talk on 2014-02-26. 
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Rumi Poem - Surrender

2014-02-26 Guided Meditation: A Healing Breath

Meditation: A Healing Breath

2014-03-05 Guided Meditation: Dynamic Presence - given by Tara Brach before her talk on "Opening to Joy" - for more meditations and talks, visit www.tarabrach.com

Guided Meditation: Dynamic Presence - Tara Brach

Tara tells a story of a bricklayer who is responding to his insurance company's request for more information... listen in on the full talk at: http://www.tarabrach.com/audioarchives2014.html#begin

Bricklayer Story - from Tara's 2014-03-12 Talk on Equanimity

Guided Meditation - Letting In Love

2014-03-26 - "Walk Slowly" - by Danna Faulds - from her book, Go in an in: poems from the heart of yoga - as spoken by Tara Brach in her latest talk. 

2014-03-26 - "Walk Slowly" - by Danna Faulds - as spoken by Tara Brach in her latest talk

This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source. The meditation closes with “Walk Slowly”, from the poetry of Danna Faulds.

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Meditation: Opening to the Mystery

True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.

Meditation: Listening to Our Heart

2014-11-26-Meditation: The Space of Awareness

Brief prayer of lovingkindness that Tara Brach used to close her 2014-12-10 talk on "The Intimacy of Life." 

Brief Prayer Of Lovingkindness - Tara Brach

A brief holiday prayer for peace in the world...

A Holiday Prayer for Peace - Tara Brach

Meditation - Listening to, and Feeling, Life - TaraBrach

This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness.  In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path.  The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free.  The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish.  The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.

Three Liberating Gifts - Part 1 - Forgiveness - Tara Brach

Three Liberating Gifts - Part 2 - Inner Fire - TaraBrach

This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we'll explore one of the three gifts considered as essential on the spiritual path. The first is the capacity to forgive, to let go of the blame and resentment that prevents our hearts from being open and free. The second gift is "inner fire," the capacity to devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we most cherish. The third gift is a "mirror" or the capacity to look deeply into our own hearts and minds and realize the truth of who we are. Each class includes guided meditations that explore how these gifts can be nourished right here and now in our lives.

Three Liberating Gifts Part 3 - Looking In the Mirror - TaraBrach

Well being is the deep contentment that arises from a relaxed, wakeful presence. This talk explores the beliefs and habits that contract us away form presence, and several key ways we can nourish our natural capacity for happiness.

True Happiness Realizing Well Being - TaraBrach

The skillful use of inquiry - asking questions in a way that energizes and focuses our attention - brings what is hidden into the light of awareness. This talk explores the healing that arises as we investigate the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche, and the freedom discovered as we look into the very essence of who we are.

Investigating Reality - TaraBrach

Meditation - Relaxing, Smiling, Being Here - TaraBrach

Meditation - Letting Life Be Just As It Is - TaraBrach

The most basic truths we forget, and one is this: if we don't love ourselves, we can't love life. In the most basic way, attending to and embracing our inner life reveals the nature of reality. This talk looks at the genesis of self-aversions and several pathways that open us to the loving presence that is our source. (from 2015 IMCW Spring Retreat)

Loving Yourself Into Freedom - TaraBrach (retreat talk)

Our capacity to accept this life is key to our freedom, yet there are many misconceptions about acceptance: People wonder, if acceptance makes us a doormat in relationships? Isn’t acceptance akin to resignation? Doesn’t it make us passive when what is needed is action? This talk explores some of the misunderstandings about acceptance and offers teachings on the nature of genuine and liberating acceptance.

Tara Brach - Genuine Acceptance

This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world.

Meditation: Awake and Alive - Tara Brach

Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention to the unmet needs that underlie angry reactivity. When we learn how to pause and connect honestly with our inner experience, we are then able to respond to others from our full intelligence and hear.

Anger: Responding Not Reacting - Tara Brach

Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. We have the capacity for affiliative care, to tune into each other and to hold each other in our hearts. Developing this innate potential is the hope of our world.

Using the acronym R-A-I-N (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture), this meditation offers guidance in mindfully attuning to the emotional experience of others and awakening our natural tenderness and care.

Guided Reflection: The RAIN of Compassion

Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are.

This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat. The gift is discovering an inner freedom in the midst of life, and the capacity to respond to what arises with love-in-action.

Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety

Meditation teacher, author, and clinical psychologist: Tara Brach has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is a teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Her podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times a month.

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