Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)
by dharmaseed.org · 16 episodes
ReligionSpiritualityBuddhism
A pervasive but often invisible source of suffering in our culture is self-aversion. We are a busy culture, and we move through our life feeling anxious and dissatisfied, but not fully conscious of how we neglect or judge our inner experience. We suffer from a lack of belonging: to our own bodies, to each other and to the earth. When we practice Buddhist meditation, we learn how to listen deeply and hold our life tenderly. The open space of compassion allows us to realize that our thoughts and emotions are not who we are; they are waves in our ocean...
Latest episodes
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12 min
Tara Brach: Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and g…
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1 h 00
Tara Brach: Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots o…
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17 min
Tara Brach: Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release…
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58 min
Tara Brach: Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Valarie Kaur
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts?…
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20 min
Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in rel…
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49 min
Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The Gateway of Equanimity – Part 2
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate th…
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23 min
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness…
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45 min
Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The Gateway of Equanimity – Part I
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate th…
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24 min
Tara Brach: Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This medita…
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53 min
Tara Brach: Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude…
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18 min
Tara Brach: Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. W…
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57 min
Tara Brach: The Honesty Challenge – Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than tru…
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20 min
Tara Brach: Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to…
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54 min
Tara Brach: The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to inc…
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17 min
Tara Brach: Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart (16:52 min.)
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptat…
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52 min
Tara Brach: Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.” How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times– give rise to a growing compass…