Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

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...
Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:51 min.)

Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (19:51 min.)

In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of...
Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with gratitude. We...
Transcript ~ Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Transcript ~ Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

~ A Talk Given by Tara Brach, on November 29, 2019 – Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the...
Meditation: Being Here (21:55 min.)

Meditation: Being Here (21:55 min.)

This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies, awaken our senses, and then bring our attention to relaxing with our moment-to-moment...
Listening to the Song – Part 2 – “Removing the Fluff”

Listening to the Song – Part 2 – “Removing the Fluff”

Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence. When...
Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (20:57 min.)

Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (20:57 min.)

This meditation awakens our senses through a body scan and listening to sound, and then invites us to rest in the presence that spontaneously knows the changing stream of experience.  Relaxing back and letting everything be just as it is, reveals the natural presence...
Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30:00 min)

Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30:00 min)

The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. The 4-steps of RAIN are: Recognize what is happening; Allow the...
Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:38 min.)

Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:38 min.)

Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself. Open receptive...
Listening to the Song – Part 1

Listening to the Song – Part 1

Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence. To listen...