Fri, 31 May 2019
Part 3 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-29) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part 1 focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame. Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With gratitude and love, Tara
Direct download: 2019-05-29-Pt3-Forgiveness-Releasing-from-Aversive-Blame-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:08pm EST |
Thu, 30 May 2019
Meditation: Opening to Life (2019-05-29) - This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts, letting life be just as it is. Free download of Tara's 10 min meditation:
Direct download: 2019-05-29-Meditation-Opening-to-Life-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Guided Meditation -- posted at: 6:39pm EST |
Fri, 24 May 2019
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) (2019-05-08) - This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self. We then explore the practices of presence and self-inquiry that turn us toward the openness, tenderness and wakefulness of our Being. Our trust grows as we increasingly glimpse, embody and live from our natural Being. Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With gratitude and love, Tara
Direct download: 2019-05-08-Trusting-the-Gold-retreat-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Retreat Talk -- posted at: 6:37pm EST |
Thu, 23 May 2019
Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (2019-04-17) - One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and relating to our inner life with greater understanding and compassion. For more resources on RAIN:
Direct download: 2019-04-17-Meditation-RAIN-on-Self-Blame-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Guided Meditation -- posted at: 7:31pm EST |
Fri, 17 May 2019
Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15) - For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day for food, the horrors of the animal-food industry, and the impact it has on climate change (second only to fossil fuels.) In this short talk Tara shares her personal story of transitioning to a vegan diet, and invites listeners to investigate, without judgment, their own choices in this domain. (note: given at a special class on "Loving Life with a Plant-Based Diet." Tara was joined by guest speakers, Mark Tercek and Brenda Sanders, and hosted by Jonathan Foust. Full video available at Tara's Facebook page and soon at IMCW.org.)
Direct download: 2019-05-15-Compassion-Towards-All-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:58pm EST |
Thu, 16 May 2019
Meditation: Choosing Living Presence - A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om’s in community – a favorite from Tara’s Wednesday night archives). Free download of Tara's 10 min meditation:
Direct download: 2019-05-15-Meditation-Choosing-Living-Presence-2015-12-02-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Guided Meditation -- posted at: 7:44pm EST |
Fri, 10 May 2019
Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk) - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging (given at the 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat). How I yearn to belong to something, to be contained in an all-embracing mind that sees me as a single thing.
Direct download: 2019-05-08-Conscious-Prayer--retreat-talk-2016-05-11-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Retreat Talk -- posted at: 7:12pm EST |
Thu, 9 May 2019
Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness - a Metta Practice - This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of “yes” and then closes with a brief lovingkindness practice. NOTE: a favorite retreat meditation from the archives. Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go.” Free download of Tara's 10 min meditation:
Direct download: 2019-05-08-Metta-Meditation-Happiness-17min-2011-04-13-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Retreat Talk -- posted at: 5:19pm EST |
Fri, 3 May 2019
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame. Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With gratitude and love, Tara
Direct download: 2019-05-01-Pt2-Forgiveness-Releasing-from-Aversive-Blame-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:59pm EST |
Thu, 2 May 2019
Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01) - This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. The invitation is to rest in Hereness, fully awake in presence. The meditation ends with a short offering of blessings. Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With gratitude and love, Tara
Direct download: 2019-05-01-Meditation-Being-Here-TaraBrach.mp3
Category:Guided Meditation -- posted at: 6:05pm EST |