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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
Tara Brach
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.
1998-09-15 Freedom From Addiction 58:37
From the Buddhist perspective, craving is the cause of suffering. To the extent that we feel discomfort or suffering, we are identified with wanting life to be different is some way. This talk guides us in honesty facing our own areas of attachment, and explores the Buddhist teachings on freedom from addiction.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-08-04 The Great Perfection: Emptiness Suffused With Compassion 61:05
What mind experiences as truth, the heart experiences as love. In all spiritual traditions, the experience and cultivation of a devoted heart is integral in being wholly human and awakening to the holy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: The Great Perfection
1998-08-04 The Great Perfection 2:02:13
Exploring emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-07-14 The Eight-Fold Path 54:51
The Buddha offered a comprehensive guide to spiritual living. By reflecting on the interrelated facets of the path, we bring our practice alive in all domains.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-07-07 The Four Noble Truths 51:54
a reflection on the grounds of the Buddha's teachings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-05-19 There's No Place Like Home 51:34
Aspiring to be awake; taking refuge in caring presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-05-04 "No Self" Realization: Discovering Our True Nature 59:31
explore how practice awakens us from the dream of a separate self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-05-04 Widening The Circle Of Compassion 53:18
seeing that all circumstances may serve to awaken our hearts and minds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-05-02 Mindfulness As A Path Of Healing 46:01
Genuine healing is the opening to wholeness. This talk explores how the practice of mindfulness brings a vitalizing and transforming healing to our bodies, hearts and minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-04-28 Unconditionally Friendly Toward Life 62:19
large portions of our life are raced through in a mechanical and uncaring way. this talk focuses on the ways that we compartmentalize spiritual life. guided meditations and reflections address how we can cultivate the quality of unconditional caring presence in the midst of all experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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