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2024-12-18
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease
16:35
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Tara Brach
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This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.
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2024-12-18
Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Valarie Kaur
58:07
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Tara Brach
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In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts? What gives us the courage to bring our whole being into serving and savoring? And what is our vision for a new world?
In this fresh and profoundly relevant conversation, Tara Brach and Valarie Kaur explore the challenges and potential of these turbulent times. Valarie, a Sikh activist, filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, and author, shares insights from her powerful books, including See No Stranger and her recent works, World of Wonder and Sage Warrior. Together, Tara and Valarie reflect on:
How Revolutionary Love can be a guide in times of division and despair.
Valarie’s ancestral teachings on surviving apocalyptic times with courage.
The role of joy, music, and community in building resilience and connection.
Forgiveness, reconciliation, and transforming anger into meaningful action.
Visioning a new world while staying rooted in hope, presence, and love.
Learn more about Valarie and the Revolutionary Love project at www.revolutionarylove.org . Valarie’s latest books can be found on her website at https://valariekaur.com/books/.
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2024-12-23
Befriending Eternity: 49 Days in Darkness by Adam Baraz
59:06
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James Baraz
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Talk originally given on December 12, 2024
I’m happy to share the evening with my son, Adam Baraz, who will reflect on the recent completion of his fifth Darkness Retreat, a 49-day “Bardo Retreat” in Tuscany, Italy.
Adam will discuss the psychological, physical, emotional, and spiritual journey of “being alone in the dark” for 7 weeks. He will describe the practical aspects of preparation, meditation practice, challenges, and benefits of extended darkness retreat practice.
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2024-12-25
Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life
11:46
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Tara Brach
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Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from the archives).
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2024-12-25
Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)
60:56
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Tara Brach
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When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is our source (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
I really invite you to experiment and find the way of remembering love that warms your heart because it’ll help you trust your heart and we deep down really want to trust the goodness of our hearts. May we trust who we are. ~ Tara
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2024-12-26
Are Ghosts, Angels and Devas real?
56:22
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Ajahn Achalo
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03:01 Q1) Do you believe in Devas, and other subtle bodied beings in higher, lower and parallel realms?
03:12 Q2) When did you first start to believe in these things and why?
22:32 the next three questions flow together:
Q3) Do you believe that belief in such things is central to the Buddhist world view and to Buddhist practice?
Q4) What are the benefits if one can take this aspect of cosmology on board?
Q5) What are the possible drawbacks if one does not?
41:03 Q6) Are there potential dangers in believing in such things?
44:28 Q7) Can you tell us some stories from personal experience, or things that you have heard first hand from your own teachers and friends, which might help us to be more open to the possibilities?
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