Synopsis
Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist (mindfulness) meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She is author of Radical Acceptance (2003), and True Refuge (2013). Senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C. (IMCW), Tara shares a weekly talk on Buddhist teachings and practices. Visit http://www.tarabrach.com for more information. Please support this podcast by donating at http://www.tarabrach.com. Your generosity makes a difference!
Episodes
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Guided Meditation: Listening to & Feeling the Moment
28/11/2013 Duration: 30min2013-11-27 Guided Meditation: Listening to & Feeling the Moment
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Accessing Innate Wisdom
21/11/2013 Duration: 55min2013-11-20 Accessing Innate Wisdom - Wisdom is an innate capacity, but often covered over by trance. This talk explores how we abandon ourselves as we busily seek ways to feel more worthy, loveable and safe. We then look at the pathway home, the radical non-doing and space of silence that allows wisdom and love to flow through.
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Guided Meditation: Choiceless Awareness
21/11/2013 Duration: 28min2013-11-20 Guided Meditation: Choiceless Awareness
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Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
16/11/2013 Duration: 55min2013-11-13 - Part 2 - Vulnerability, Intimacy and Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization. These talks explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts.
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Guided Meditation: Breath & Presence
16/11/2013 Duration: 26min2013-11-13 - Guided Meditation: Breath & Presence
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Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening
08/11/2013 Duration: 59min2013-11-06 - Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization. These talks explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts.
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Guided Meditation: Continuous Space, Filled with Awareness
08/11/2013 Duration: 29min2013-11-06-Guided Meditation: Continuous Space, Filled with Awareness
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Healing Self-Doubt
03/11/2013 Duration: 54min2013-10-30 - Healing Self-Doubt - Siddhartha Gautama’s last challenge before enlightenment was doubt, and to some degree, most of us live with limiting beliefs about our own worthiness and goodness. This talk looks at the tenacity of self-doubt and the power of mindfulness, investigation and compassion in releasing its grip.
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Guided Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence
03/11/2013 Duration: 27min2013-10-30 - Guided Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence
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Guided Forgiveness Practice (retreat)
26/10/2013 Duration: 32min2013-10-20 SatPM (retreat) Guided Forgiveness Practice - Instructions, then a guided forgiveness meditation.
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The Heartspace That is Our True Home (retreat talk)
26/10/2013 Duration: 01h04min2013-10-19 - The Heartspace That is Our True Home - (retreat talk) - By dedicating ourselves to loving the life that is right here--ourselves--we discover the heartspace that holds this world. This talk explores the pathways of forgiveness, offering and letting in love, and gratitude that reveal the vastness of loving presence.
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Part 2: Happiness
18/10/2013 Duration: 56min2013-10-16 - Part 2: Happiness - This 2-part series explores conditioned and unconditioned happiness: What blocks us from experiencing true well-being, and the skillful means that allow this natural expression of our being to shine through.
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Guided Meditation: Listening to, and Feeling, the Moment
18/10/2013 Duration: 28min2013-10-16 Guided Meditation: Listening to, and Feeling, the Moment
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Part 1: Happiness
11/10/2013 Duration: 47min2013-10-09 - Part 1: Happiness - This 2-part series explores conditioned and unconditioned happiness: What blocks us from experiencing true well-being, and the skillful means that allow this natural expression of our being to shine through. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!
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Guided Meditation: Being Presence
11/10/2013 Duration: 28min2013-10-09 - Guided Meditation: Being Presence
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Loving Life, Loving Earth
04/10/2013 Duration: 45min2013-10-02 - Loving Life, Loving Earth - What will it take to have us collectively awaken to the suffering of our earth and respond? This talk looks at how we are destroying our larger body, the earth; what stops us from recognizing and opening to the suffering of loss, and ways we can evolve our consciousness and act on behalf of this precious life. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!
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Guided Meditation: Choosing Living Presence
04/10/2013 Duration: 23min2013-10-02 - Guided Meditation: Choosing Living Presence
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Part 2: Entering the Wilderness
27/09/2013 Duration: 53min2013-09-25 - Part 2: Entering the Wilderness - On all spiritual paths, we journey into the inner wilderness to discover the nature of nature - the truth of who we are. The entry is through bringing a kind and full presence to the life of our bodies. These two talks explore the conditioning that leads us to dissociation, and the blessings of full aliveness, open heartedness and wisdom that arise when we come home to embodied presence. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!
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Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) Meditation
27/09/2013 Duration: 19min2013-09-25 - Guided Meditation - Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness)
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Part 1: Entering the Wilderness
20/09/2013 Duration: 54min2013-09-18 - Part 1 - Entering the Wilderness - On all spiritual paths, we journey into the inner wilderness to discover the nature of nature - the truth of who we are. The entry is through bringing a kind and full presence to the life of our bodies. These two talks explore the conditioning that leads us to dissociation, and the blessings of full aliveness, open heartedness and wisdom that arise when we come home to embodied presence.Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!