Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks
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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. The open space of compassion allows us to realize that our thoughts a ...
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How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris
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How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris - It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that rather than safety, this pervasive habit in our society creates deep suffering. This conversation between Tara and Dan Harris dives into stra…
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Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:53 min.)
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This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. “This river of sensation ceas…
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Tara Brach: How to Stop the War Against Yourself – A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that rather than safety, this pervasive habit in our society creates deep suffering. This conversation between Tara and Dan Harris dives into strategies to deal with your own self-hat…
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks


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Tara Brach: Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our…
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Sleep Archives - Tara Brach


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Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (15:37 min)
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Meditation – Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (bell at end) This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. Photo credit: Shannon Lavery, Rodeo Beach – Marin County, California The post Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (15:37 min) appeared first on Tara Brach.…
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Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness
17:53
17:53
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
17:53
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our…
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How to Stop the War Against Yourself – A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris
1:12:04
1:12:04
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
1:12:04
It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that rather than safety, this pervasive habit in our society creates deep suffering. This conversation between Tara and Dan Harris dives into strategies to deal with your own self-hatred and cultivate a forgiving heart. (Note: This…
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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing
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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways me…
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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – The Power of Self-Nurturing
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
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Download the free PDF While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate su…
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Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (15:37 min)
15:37
15:37
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
15:37
Meditation – Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (bell at end) This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. Photo credit: Shannon Lavery, Rodeo Beach – Marin County, California The post Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep (15:37 min) appeared first on Tara Brach.…
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Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep
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Danh sách
Thích
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Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.Bởi Tara Brach
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep
15:37
15:37
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
15:37
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.Bởi Tara Brach
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Tara Brach: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – The Power of Self-Nurturing
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions.This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can b…
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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths
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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discove…
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Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (10:08 min)
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Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies and let sounds wash through us. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence and peace. photo: pixabay The post Meditation: Th…
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Meditation: The Silence That is Listening
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies and let sounds wash through us. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence and p…
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks


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Tara Brach: Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara Brach and Roland Griffiths
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Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Ca…
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Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara Brach and Roland Griffiths
1:42:05
1:42:05
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
1:42:05
Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationshi…
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Tara Brach: Meditation: The Silence That is Listening
10:08
10:08
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
10:08
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies and let sounds wash through us. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence a…
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Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness
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Danh sách
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Đã thích
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Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love and awareness that animate our living world. We investigate the suffering of othering, how the trance of separ…
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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15:19 min)
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Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awa…
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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence
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Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness th…
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Trusting the Gold – Realizing Our Basic Goodness
49:00
49:00
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
49:00
Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love and awareness that animate our living world. We investigate the suffering of othering, how the trance of separateness blinds us to our basic goodness, and then e…
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence
15:19
15:19
Nghe Sau
Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
15:19
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our…
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Guided Reflection: Making the U-Turn – Awakening Through Conflict (12:03 min.)
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How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get hijacked into emotional reactivity? In this short reflection, we’ll explores the U-turn that enables us to offer a healing attention to the feelings and unmet needs under anger. Once present with our inner life, we are able to respond to those around us with wisdom, empathy and true strengt…
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The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris
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Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment of a five-part audio documentary series, something we’ve never done before now. Over the course of the…
Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we …
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Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home
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Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over, we become familiar with the reality that is truly our home.Bởi Tara Brach
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Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:59 min)
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Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
19:59
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over, we become familiar with the reality that is truly our home. The post Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:59 min) appeared first on Tara Brach.…
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Tara Brach: Realizing Your Deepest Intention
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Nghe Sau
Danh sách
Thích
Đã thích
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways …
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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Tara Brach's most recent Dharma talks

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be
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(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is.Bởi Tara Brach