| Date |
Title |
Teacher |
Length |
File Size |
| 2008-12-17 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
13:11 |
2.3 MB |
| |
The Undefended Heart - Solstice 2008
Our dedication to not pushing anyone--or any part of ourselves--out of our hearts, serves the healing of our world. This talk includes a short guided meditation on opening to our human vulnerability and forgiving another person. |
|
1:08:31 |
11.7 MB |
| 2008-12-10 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:15 |
4.0 MB |
| |
Relaxed Attentiveness
While the heart of meditation is resting in open awareness, our conditioning to be distracted and reactive can keep us on the wheel of suffering. We awaken from trace by developing skillful ways of paying attention that create the environment for natural presence. This natural awareness, while sometimes hidden, is always here: It is our true home. |
|
51:22 |
8.8 MB |
| 2008-12-03 |
No Meditation Class |
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| 2008-11-26 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:52 |
4.8 MB |
| |
Thanksgiving 2008 - Living the Life Fully: Gratitude and Generosity
While generosity and gratitude are natural capacities, our conditioning to want life different can often keep us from living from a free and open heart. This talk explores three gateways to awakening and expressing love in our daily life. |
|
51:30 |
8.8 MB |
| 2008-11-19 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
26:15 |
4.5 MB |
| |
The Three Characteristics: Part 3 - No Self
At the center of the Buddhist teachings is the understanding that the passing phenomena of this world--sounds, sensations, thoughts, bodies and minds--have no self at the center, no self as owner, and are not happening to a self. In other words, our familiar sense of self is an illusion. When there is full presence, a presence not filtered by thoughts, this illusion dissolves, freeing us to realize our true nature. This talk exploring the teachings of no-self, or emptiness, includes several reflections and practices that guide us in awakening to this essential and liberating truth.
|
|
49:37 |
8.5 MB |
| 2008-11-12 |
Meditation (due to technical difficulties, the meditation was not recorded) |
Tara Brach |
|
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| |
The Three Characteristics: Part 2 - Impermanence
The Buddha taught that when our understanding of impermanence is direct and non-conceptual, it is liberating. By directly opening to the radical impermanence of all experience, including the truth of our own mortality, we discover the natural capacity to let go. With this "mind that clings to no thing" awakens wisdom, authentic spontaneity and a natural cherishing of life.
|
|
46:26 |
8.0 MB |
| 2008-11-05 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:17 |
4.7 MB |
| |
The Three Characteristics:
Part 1 - Unsatisfactoriness
The Buddha described three basic and interrelated insights into nature of reality that are revealed through a clear and deep attention. Called "the three characteristics," these insights include dukkha (unsatisfactoriness), annicha (impermanence) and annata (selflessness or emptiness). In the first of this three week series of talks, we explore the meaning of dukkha, how we directly recognize the varied expressions of dukkha and it's gift when met with full presence. |
|
53:08 |
9.1 MB |
| 2008-10-15 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
29:25 |
5.1 MB |
| |
Equanimity in the Face of Conflict
This talk, given on the eve of a presidential debate, explores how we can
awaken from the conditioning that turns us against ourselves and others.
The guided meditation offers an opportunity to choose a place of conflict
and reactivity with others, and discover what is possible when we turn
towards our deepest wisdom and compassion. |
|
37:58 |
6.5 MB |
| 2008-10-08 |
No class |
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| 2008-10-01 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
22:45 |
3.9 MB |
| |
Inviting Mara to Tea
One of the great archetypal themes in the Buddha's life is facing Mara,
the shadow side of greed, hatred and delusion. Rather than being seduced,
fighting or running away, the Buddha simply recognized Mara's presence
and invited him to tea. This talk and guided meditation explores the theme
of a radical and engaged presence, and how it directly translates into
a sacred path of healing and freedom. |
|
49:35 |
8.5 MB |
| 2008-09-24 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:43 |
4.2 MB |
| |
Soul Retrieval
When we become stressed and reactive, we lose contact with our natural
spontaneity, wisdom and openheartedness. This talk investigates the ways
we become caught in the stress-trance and the key elements in awakening:
pausing and remindfulness. Using the gateway of the senses, we explore
both the pathway of presence and the gifts of reconnecting with soul, spirit,
essence. |
|
47:45 |
8.2 MB |
| 2008-09-17 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:43 |
4.2 MB |
| |
A Committed Presence
Our conditioning is to feel separate, creating an "other" out there,
and often being at war with ourselves. By cultivating a committed presence
we awaken beyond this conditioning. This talk includes stories and reflections
that identify limiting beliefs and reveal our intrinsic oneness and love. |
|
42:24 |
7.3 MB |
| 2008-09-03 |
Meditation (due to technical difficulties, the meditation was not recorded) |
Tara Brach |
|
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| |
Turning Towards What you Love
There is a saying: The road to hell is paved with bad intentions. From
the Buddha we learn the path to freedom arises from wise intentions.
Yet because we habitually grasp after what will immediately relieve or
comfort or please us, we often do not listen to our deepest intentions.
We forget that in this brief life, what matters most is loving presence.
This evening of talk and guided meditations invites participants to examine
intentions in their relationships, and to reflect on living from a more
awake connection with our heart. |
|
50:08 |
8.6 MB |
| 2008-08-27 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:48 |
4.8 MB |
| |
Listening To Our Life
Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural
state--awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening attention
dissolves the tangles of fear and craving that obscure our wholeness.
This class includes both a talk and guided meditations on deep listening
to our inner experience and with others. |
|
54:02 |
9.3 MB |
| 2008-08-20 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:55 |
4.1 MB |
| |
Behind the Mask
We each develop and become identified with masks that express a false or
narrowed sense of self. Whether it's the helper mask or addict mask,
the controller mask or loser mask, the beliefs and emotions creating
the mask prevent us from realizing our natural wholeness and beauty.
This talk explores how, in the face of inevitable change and loss, we
can remember the presence and love that is peering through the mask.
|
|
52:44 |
9.1 MB |
| 2008-08-13 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
26:57 |
4.6 MB |
| |
Let Everything Happen to You
The ways we try to control our life imprisons us in a contracted, fearful
sense of self. Yet when we contemplate letting go of control, there is
a sense that we will be endangered, that we will fail, that something will
go wrong. This talk explores how, if we have the courage to "let everything
happen" we discover a presence that is healing and freeing. As we
learn to live from this allowing presence, our actions become naturally
wholesome and wise.
|
|
50:05 |
8.6 MB |
| 2008-07-09 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:55 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Three Attitudes that Awaken and Free Our Spirit
Our predicament is intuiting our true nature--love, awareness--and yet
regularly contracting into the self-identity conditioned by wants and
fears. This talk explores three essential and liberating ways
of relating to our human conditioning: forgiving that it arises, interest
in what is true, and regarding experience with friendliness and kindness. |
|
48:36 |
8.3 MB |
| 2008-07-02 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:18 |
4.7 MB |
| |
Conscious
Activity
Based on one of the great legends from the court of King Arthur, this
talk examines the freedom that is possible when we can see past the veil
of illusion and realize the true nature that shines through all beings. |
|
52:36 |
9.0 MB |
| 2008-06-25 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:48 |
4.3 MB |
| |
The
Blessings of Soul Recognition
One understanding of suffering is that as individuals and a culture we
are uprooted, that we have disconnected from our natural world, our
inner life and a sense of belonging with each other. Some flags are
speediness and over consumption, anxiety and depression. This talk
explores how we have become uprooted and the three gateways of rediscovering
our natural wholeness, spontaneity and inner freedom. |
|
56:11 |
9.6 MB |
| 2008-06-18 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:22 |
4.7 MB |
| |
Planting Yourself in the Universe
One understanding of suffering is that as individuals and a culture we
are uprooted, that we have disconnected from our natural world, our
inner life and a sense of belonging with each other. Some flags are
speediness and over consumption, anxiety and depression. This talk
explores how we have become uprooted and the three gateways of rediscovering
our natural wholeness, spontaneity and inner freedom. |
|
46:45 |
8 MB |
| 2008-06-11 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
25:03 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Question/Answer: Working with the Difficult Weather
In this talk Tara responds to questions from participants on how to bring
a healing attention to anger, sleepiness, great loss and the wounds of our
world. She grounds the teachings in the two wings of clear recognition
(of what is happening) and an allowing presence, one that is full with
compassion. |
|
54:50 |
9.4 MB |
| 2008-05-28 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
25:30 |
4.4 MB |
| |
My Religion
is Kindness
The expression of inner freedom is a kind heart. This talk explores how
we armor our hearts, and the pathways of awakening our natural capacity
for loving unconditionally. The session includes an experiential inquiry
that helps reveal the ways we create separation, and the possiblity of
healing and freeing our heart. |
|
48:02 |
8.3 MB |
| 2008-05-21 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
25:26 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Vesak - Path
of Awakening
In the Buddhist tradition, the spring celebration of Vesak honors the
Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. The archetypal theme that plays
through these three events, and the core teaching of the Buddha, is that
we each have the capacity to realize profound inner freedom, happiness
and peace. We are no different than the Buddha, and our path is to realize
the luminosity of our spirit. |
|
53:53 |
9.2 MB |
| 2008-05-14 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:49 |
4.8 MB |
| |
Golfing
with Monkeys
The Buddha taught that in any moment that we have an argument with life,
we suffer. This talk explores the ways we are conditioned to think life
should be different, and how the natural arising of unpleasant experience
becomes locked into suffering. An experiential reflection guides us in
how to respond, rather than react, to life's challenges...inhabiting
a wise heart. |
|
43:10 |
7.4 MB |
| 2008-04-30 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
25:55 |
4.4 MB |
| |
Realizing
Our Natural Joy - Part 2
In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart.
In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can
cultivate and embody this intrinsic facet of our being. |
|
45:06 |
7.7 MB |
| 2008-04-23 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:55 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Realizing
Our Natural Joy - Part 1
In the buddhist teachings, joy is a natural expression of our awakened heart.
In these two talks we will explore how we block off joy, and ways that we can
cultivate and embody this intrinsic facet of our being. |
|
49:36 |
8.5 MB |
| 2008-04-16 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:35 |
4.0 MB |
| |
Meeting
Fear with a Wise Heart - Part 2
These talks investigate how fear, nature's protector, proliferates and
becomes a trance of fear and the cause of deep suffering. We look at
the "body of
fear"- the thoughts, physicality, emotions and behaviors that express and
fuel the trance of fear. Through stories and guided reflections we explore the
ways that buddhist meditation can free us from the grip of unhealthy fear. |
|
52:44 |
9.3 MB |
| 2008-04-09 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:35 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Meeting
Fear with a Wise Heart - Part 1
These talks investigate how fear, nature's protector, proliferates and becomes
a trance of fear and the cause of deep suffering. We look at the "body of
fear"- the thoughts, physicality, emotions and behaviors that express and
fuel the trance of fear. Through stories and guided reflections we explore the
ways that buddhist meditation can free us from the grip of unhealthy fear. |
|
46:17 |
8.0 MB |
| 2008-04-02 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:32 |
4.8 MB |
| |
A
Wise Understanding of Desire
We lose huge swaths of our life when caught in wanting experience to be more
and different. Yet if we bring a mindful presence to the thoughts and feelings
of wanting, we discover a portal into full aliveness and freedom. This talk explores
how to recognize and investigate wanting mind; how by tracing longing back to
it's very source we discover that what we long for is already here. |
|
46:19 |
8.1 MB |
| 2008-03-26 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:08 |
4.7 MB |
| |
The
Two Wolves
Empathy and aggression are both part of our evolutionary survival equipment.
We awaken spiritually as we bring awareness to the vulnerability that drives
aggression, and discover that we can directly cultivate our capacity to experience
loving connection. |
|
45:45 |
7.9 MB |
| 2008-03-19 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
27:55 |
4.8 MB |
| |
Our
Heart's Aspiration
This talk weaves two teachings that are key to awakening. "The most important
thing is remembering the most important thing" helps us be guided by the compass
of our heart in living our lives. And discovering that "what we long for is already
here" lets us trust that the love or peace we seek is found in the fullness of
presence. |
|
46:18 |
7.9 MB |
| 2008-03-12 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
26:41 |
4.6 MB |
| |
Befriending
the Deities
The fruit of practice is releasing our identification with core beliefs and fear-based
emotions, and realizing and inhabiting our Natural awareness. This is described
as the N in RAIN - an acronym that can guide us in awakening loving presence. |
|
48:45 |
8.4 MB |
| 2008-03-05 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
26:50 |
4.6 MB |
| |
The
Art of Practice - R.A.I.N.
This second class in the Art of Practice reviews the basic components of meditation
training and illustrates through several stories, the use of the acronym RAIN
in awakening loving presence. The session includes a period of question/answer. |
|
53:21 |
9.2 MB |
| 2008-02-27 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
26:00 |
4.7 MB |
| |
The
Art of Practice - Mindfulness
In the Art of Practice, we explore key techniques in preparing the grounds for
true meditation. These include relaxation, identifying a home base, awakening
the senses and re-mindfulness. These "skillful means" allow us to arrive Here,
and to rest in a natural mindfulness, awake and open awareness. |
|
47:19 |
8.1 MB |
| 2008-02-20 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:52 |
4.0 MB |
| |
Listening
Presence
A full and listening presence is the gateway to genuine intimacy with our self
and others. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening and the teachings
and practices that guide us in developing this healing and liberating capacity. |
|
45:42 |
7.8 MB |
| 2008-02-06 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
24:55 |
4.3 MB |
| |
Gateways
to Happiness
While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave
us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How
do we relax and open to the blessings of our life that are always and already
here? Though these reflections we explore together our potential to live from
a profound place of inner freedom, peace and happiness. |
|
48:08 |
8.3 MB |
| 2008-01-30 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
17:33 |
3 MB |
| |
The Power of
Inquiry
Inquiry, or mindful investigation, is a direct way to deepen our attention and
reveal the nature of reality. This talk explores the attitude, types of questions
and practice of non-conceptual presence that awakens our deepest wisdom. |
|
48:19 |
8.3 MB |
| 2008-01-09 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
28:00 |
4.8 MB |
| |
Touching
Enlightenment with the Body
We realize and inhabit the fullness of what we are through the gateway of our
senses. This reflection includes how we dissociate from our bodies (hearts, each
other, earth) and the pathways of belonging. The evening is dedicated to John
O'Donahue, a teacher of the divine longing that carries us to belonging. |
|
44:55 |
7.7 MB |
| 2008-01-02 |
Meditation |
Tara Brach |
23:25 |
4 MB |
| |
The Three Refuges
This talk reflects on the three gateways to liberating presence-- Buddha nature
(our awakened heartmind); Dharma (the living moment, truth, nature of things)
and Sangha (spiritual community.) The evening includes a ritual of "taking
refuge" that invites our dedication to each domain of awakening and freedom. |
|
58:27 |
10 MB |
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