I migliori Tarabrach podcast (2024)

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The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD 54:01

6d ago54:01

54:01

This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current times. This was initially recorded live for those in Kristin’s membership community and includes sever…

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Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:39 min.) 19:39

7d ago19:39

19:39

Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.Di Tara Brach

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Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World 51:38

13d ago51:38

51:38

Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.” How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times-- give rise to a growing compassion and wisdom in our world? In this talk we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections, and explore several powerful teachings and practices that can serve as the catalyst for profound transformation, an…

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Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart 16:52

14d ago16:52

16:52

During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.Di Tara Brach

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 1:00:14

20d ago1:00:14

1:00:14

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.Di Tara Brach

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Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.) 20:00

21d ago20:00

20:00

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 f…

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Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 48:28

27d ago48:28

48:28

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.Di Tara Brach

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

28d ago20:12

20:12

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 he…

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Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self 58:16

1M ago58:16

58:16

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, wakeful…

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

1M ago20:13

20:13

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.Di Tara Brach

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Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris 1:11:30

1M ago1:11:30

1:11:30

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, equa…

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Guided Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts 10:54

1M ago10:54

10:54

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…

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

2M ago15:34

15:34

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, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.”…

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The Courage to Say Yes - A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer 1:02:24

2M ago1:02:24

1:02:24

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, …

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The Sacred Work of Bridging Divides - Teachings from Roshi Joan Halifax and Tara Brach 1:04:51

2M ago1:04:51

1:04:51

There is no more relevant exploration than how we awaken to our connection as family, as belonging to this precious web of life. In their talks, Tara and Roshi Joan look at the cause of divides and their healing through wise contemplation, courageous engagement and the power of imagination. Each lead short reflections that help us bring our own hea…

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Meditation: Resting in Knowing (20:43 min.) 20:43

2M ago20:43

20:43

Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence, and learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the blessings of homecoming.…

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Waking up from Bias: A conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta 55:16

2M ago55:16

55:16

Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, author and teacher Anurag Gupta offers his wise perspectives and invites Tara to share some of what she has learned in navigating this terrain. We explore how to come into a healing relationship with …

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Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (25:06 min.) 25:06

2M ago25:06

25:06

Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same receptivity to sounds, listen to and feel the aliveness of the body. Listening to the breath as if you’re listening to the voice of a quiet loved one – really close in, tender at…

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Inner and Outer Democracy: The Practice of True Inclusion 52:26

2M ago52:26

52:26

Happiness and freedom arise as we include all parts of our being in a loving awareness. In this talk we explore how this inner work of inclusion is the grounds of democracy, and how it enables us to participate in our relationships and society in a way that fosters communications, belonging and realization of the greater good.…

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Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence 19:53

2M ago19:53

19:53

Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.…

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What is Love Asking from Us? Reflections on Palestine and the Bodhisattva Path With Tara Brach & Gabor Mate 1:01:05

3M ago1:01:05

1:01:05

In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path - the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings - they explore the importance of compassion and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and tra…

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Meditation: Touching Peace 22:03

3M ago22:03

22:03

This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go. The meditation ends with a beautiful vers…

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Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:30

3M ago58:30

58:30

This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible …

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Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open 26:27

3M ago26:27

26:27

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body sitting here. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what's happening moment-to-moment with a kind, a…

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Basic Trust - Part 1 57:40

3M ago57:40

57:40

One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathways to realizing and trusting the indivisible field of loving awareness that is our source (a favorite from the archives).Di Tara Brach

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Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves 26:00

3M ago26:00

26:00

By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever is going on.Di Tara Brach

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Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 46:20

3M ago46:20

46:20

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging. "All…

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Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath 22:59

3M ago22:59

22:59

This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.Di Tara Brach

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Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 49:42

3M ago49:42

49:42

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.…

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Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.) 20:32

3M ago20:32

20:32

When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings.…

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Love is Always Here 58:23

4M ago58:23

58:23

One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on the healing that comes from letting in love and mirroring others goodness. Talk includes quotes from Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming…

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Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min) 19:04

4M ago19:04

19:04

This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender.Di Tara Brach

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From Ego to Eco-Identity - Homecoming to Sacred Relationship 49:17

4M ago49:17

49:17

Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. This talk explores the pathway back to sacred relationship, and offers reflections and practices that awaken intimacy with the non-human world.Di Tara Brach

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Meditation: Embodied Awareness 17:23

4M ago17:23

17:23

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.Di Tara Brach

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From Head to Heart 1:02:00

4M ago1:02:00

1:02:00

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart…

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Meditation: Awareness and Flow 20:17

4M ago20:17

20:17

This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.Di Tara Brach

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Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe – Working with Pain 52:13

4M ago52:13

52:13

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 loo…

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Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.) 20:00

4M ago20:00

20:00

The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world.Di Tara Brach

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Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe 51:12

5M ago51:12

51:12

In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 loo…

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Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (22:01 min.) 19:51

5M ago19:51

19:51

This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds.Di Tara Brach

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For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings 1:28:27

5M ago1:28:27

1:28:27

The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together. Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media and is founder of lovedog.com, and Drew Webster, …

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Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body 17:59

5M ago17:59

17:59

Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.…

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Beloved Community 55:21

5M ago55:21

55:21

Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts. NOTE: At the same time as the tragic killings in Charleston, SC, Tara’…

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Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence 21:59

5M ago21:59

21:59

The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.…

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Disarming Our Hearts - Part 2: Guidance from the Bodhisattva Path 50:08

5M ago50:08

50:08

Di Tara Brach

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Meditation: Awareness is Our Home 21:46

5M ago21:46

21:46

This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation closing: As part o…

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Disarming Our Hearts - Part 1 58:09

6M ago58:09

58:09

If we realized how profoundly our chronic judgment creates separation and blocks the flow of love, we’d dedicate more deeply to disarming our hearts. Drawing on practices from the Bodhisattva path, these two talks explore the process of disarming—bridging divides with those close in, and opening our hearts to those at a distance who we consider a ‘…

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Meditation: Body and Spirit 19:38

6M ago19:38

19:38

As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem, "the spirit likes to dress up," from Mary Oliver.Di Tara Brach

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Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror 57:52

6M ago57:52

57:52

This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our de…

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Meditation: Listening to Life 18:24

6M ago18:24

18:24

The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiti…

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