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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.
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2005-03-01 Entrusting Ourselves To The Waves 48:35
Strategies for learning to directly touch the waves of experience while remembering the love and openness of our true nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2005-01-20 Pathways To Belonging - The Three Refuges 63:22
Explore bringing alive the refuges as our true nature, moment - to - moment experience and the field or relatedness. Includes guided reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2003-10-16 The Path Of Compassion 59:37
Our deepest nature is compassionate, yet our habitual self-centeredness is an armoring that confines our heart. The Buddhist teachings free us to be of benefit to all those we touch.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2003-07-09 Learning To Listen Deeply 49:34
How to cultivate an open, wakeful and receptive presence, both during formal meditation and in our communications with others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2003-06-18 Sacred Presence: Awakening From The Dream 53:44
This talk investigates the skillful means that help us open beyond our conditioned cocoon of thoughts and to realize the freshness, tenderness and boundlessness of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-09-04 Making Peace With Pain 50:38
Our conditioning to resist pain creates trance—we become identified as a small, victimized, threatened self. We have the capacity, through mindful, kind attention, to discover genuine freedom in the midst of pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-07-31 Reverence For Life: The Essence Of Engaged Buddhism 56:46
The bodhisattva path arises out of a love for life. We awaken this love as we realize our belonging to our inner life, each other and the natual world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-05-21 Radical Acceptance 51:34
The Buddha taught that suffering arises when we want life to be different than it is. Radical acceptance cuts through grasping and aversion and reveals the freedom of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2002-03-20 Realizing Our Basic Goodness Pt 3 57:24
2002-03-13 Realizing our Basic Goodness Part 1 58:22
2002-02-27 Relationships As A Path Of Spiritual Awakening 42:36
Our human relationships give rise to pain and pleasure, fear, suffering and love. As we bring our experience into the light of mindful awareness, we awaken compassion and discover the truth of our connectedness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-01-23 Befriending Difficult Emotions 58:30
Often without realizing it, painful emotions, like fear or anger give rise to the conviction that "something is wrong". When instead we receive our inner weather with an acceptance and wise attention, we reconnect with our national compassion and wholeness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-01-09 The Power Of Intention 45:56
Intention shapes our reality and is an essential part of the Buddha's Eight-Fold Path. Explore how the practice of intention -- remembering what we cherish -- can energize and guide us on the spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2001-10-25 Path Of A Bodhisattva - The Power Of Caring 57:31
Touching the source that awakens our hearts and is of benefit to all beings.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center
2001-10-23 Awakening From The Trance 58:56
The sense of being a "separate self" seems quite real and both filters and contracts our moment to moment experience of life. This talk investigates how the compelling show of separate self arises and how we can recognize and relax into our naturally radiant, compassionate and unconfined awareness.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center
2001-06-13 Transforming Fear 59:17
When we are identified inside the body of fear, our life contracts and our heart becomes hard. With the practices of mindfulness and compassion, we open our sense of being into the loving awareness that has room for fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2001-06-06 Desire And Awakening Spirit 53:47
When desire unfolds into craving and addiction, it becomes the source of great suffering. This talk examines the nature of desire, and the attitudes and practices that allow us to relate to this energy with freedom. When regarded wisely, desire is the stream that returns us to the ocean of loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - I 1:21:28
Week I - General Introduction Mindfulness of the body and concentration on the breath adding mindfulness of sensation while encouraging opening to pleasure and pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - II 1:27:00
Week II - Mindfulness of Emotions Exploring ways of working with difficult inner weather systems.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - III 1:25:32
Week III - Mindfulness of Thoughts Investigating the nature of mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - IV 1:27:02
Week IV - Integrating practice into daily life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2000-06-29 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 2 60:43
Cultivating the natural capacities of our awakening being. Part 2 of 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-06-22 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 1 56:46
Cultivating the natural capacities of our awakening being. Part 1 of 2.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-05-03 Bowing To The Sacred Within 61:10
Awakening from the trance of self and recognizing our natural radiance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-04-29 The Blessing Of Awareness 58:49
Relating to pain and pleasure with a wise and healing attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-03-28 Relationships As Path 57:22
Delving into how our relationships are the ground of spiritual awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-03-24 Bodhisattva's Aspiration 63:04
The Bodhisattva is resolved to realize non-separation and live from this truth. On this path, we widen the circle of compassion to include all of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-03-19 Desire and Awakening of Our Hearts 55:58
2000-03-18 Desire and Awakening 56:08
2000-03-13 Awakening from the Dream 63:41
2000-03-13 Awakening From The Dream 64:03
Recognizing the prison of our conceptual minds and hwo we can open into our True Nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-03-08 Blessing Our Inner Life 57:19
Learning how to handle the difficulties we can encounter when our hearts become wakeful and compassionate.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-02-16 Relating Wisely To Thoughts 59:27
Freeing the mind by relating skillfully and wisely with thought forms. L
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-02-09 Awakening Though Our Emotional Life 60:02
Relating to our inner weather with a wise and compassionate attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2000-01-19 Practicing Radical Acceptance 57:32
Cultivating the openness and connectedness that express our natural freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-12-08 Awakening Faith 56:52
Training our attention to recognize what is true so we may embrace this life wholeheartedly.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-11-24 Thanksgiving - Experiencing The Abundance Of Our Spirit 54:41
Discovering and inhabiting our generous natures.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-11-17 The Way Of Love: Embracing Life & Death 55:13
Cultivating the courage to love unconditionally.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
1999-11-03 The Art Of Meditation Practice 57:09
Regular mindfulness and concentration can be a creative and vital ritual of daily practice that becomes essential in opening of our hearts and minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-10-27 Wise Effort, Aspiration And Spiritual Freedom 65:57
Energizing our spiritual unfolding with the effort to be wakeful and relaxed.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-10-13 Forgiveness - Freeing Our Heart To Love Fully - part 1 51:03
Reflecting on forgiveness and the ways to open and heal our hearts by releasing the burdens that keep us contracted and heavy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-10-05 The Great Perfection: The Taste Of Freedom 61:08
Realizing emptiness and radiant wakefulness by investigating the nature of self. Includes a quided mediation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: The Great Perfection
1999-10-03 Love And Fear 58:40
Facing and transforming the fear that armors our heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-09-14 Fully Alive- Awakening Through Embodiment 61:27
The Buddha's teachings on mindfulness begin with mindfulness of our body. By cultivating embodied awareness, we develop the capacity for presence and awakening through all realms of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
1999-08-03 The Jewel Net Of Indra 56:06
Awakening to the mystery of interdependence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
1999-07-20 The Power Of Prayer 59:05
Exploring prayer as the bridge between longing and belonging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-07-06 Facing Our Fears: Living With A Courageous Heart 61:27
Exploring the nature of fear, and the practices that cultivate courage.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Courageous Living
1999-05-03 The Longing To Belong 55:27
recognizing and honoring our longing for connection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-04-27 Devotion And The Path Of Awakening II 57:46
Our longing for communion arises out of loving life and is the energy that liberates our spirit. By becoming intentional in inhabiting and expressing this longing, we relax openly into the truth of belonging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1999-04-13 Devotion And The Path Of Awakening I 61:28
Our longing for communion arises out of loving life and is the energy that liberates our spirit. By becoming intentional in inhabiting and expressing this longing, we relax openly into the truth of belonging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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