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Meditation: Relaxing with Life

Tara Brach

Release Date: 10/19/2023

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 show art Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2

Tara Brach

In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world-- with courageous, wise hearts.

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Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.) show art Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.)

Tara Brach

By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive continuous space filled with the light of awareness. This meditation attunes us to these dimensions of awareness: continuous open space, heart space and full aliveness. We end with a Zen poem that invites us to rest in this living, loving awareness, and know it as home.

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 show art Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1

Tara Brach

In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding - to ourselves, each other and our world - with courageous, wise hearts.

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Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.) show art Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.)

Tara Brach

When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs - no bell at end).

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Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self show art Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self

Tara Brach

The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing - the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being. 

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Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:13 min.) show art Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:13 min.)

Tara Brach

When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.

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Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris show art Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris

Tara Brach

How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview, Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and practices that can help us all in responding to our world with as much clarity, equanimity and love as possible. Learn more about Dan Harris and subscribe to his new substack platform at https://www.danharris.com

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Guided Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts show art Guided Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts

Tara Brach

Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance with a growing creativity and love.

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Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:34 min.) show art Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:34 min.)

Tara Brach

This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt,

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The Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer show art The Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Tara Brach

I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn’t realize how much I needed Rosemerry’s words to remind me of what most matters. In our interview we talk about the key themes in her poems: grief, love, opening to what’s difficult...

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Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises.