…through the pain of separation? Below are some resources we hope you’ll find helpful: Talks on Working with Grief, Loss and Death Other Resources: Working with Grief, Loss and Death…
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Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski
Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given at…
Blog: Meeting Our Edge and Softening
…my heart I had been running from. As I allowed the fear—attended to it, breathed with it—I could feel a deep, cutting grief. “Just be here,” I told myself. “Open…
Blog ~ What is Love Asking from Us: Reflections on Gaza, the West Bank and Israel
…rather than being hooked by fear or anger, we can touch the loss, grief and caring underneath. My process of opening in this way has unfolded both in solitary practice…
The Essence of Mindful Prayer: “May this Suffering Awaken Compassion”
…was crushing—for many weeks I was swamped in obsessing about him, sobbing, overwhelmed with grief. I stopped listening to the radio because classic rock songs often left me weeping. I…
Awakening Through Change and Loss
…presence and compassion that open us to loss and grief, and reveal the loving awareness that is beyond birth and death. More on Working with Grief, Change and Loss here….
Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
…that is our home heals the very roots of depression. THE WELL OF GRIEF Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief, turning down…
Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
…that is our home heals the very roots of depression. THE WELL OF GRIEF Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief, turning down…
Transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
…fear tells us that there is something really threatening. Our grief tells us that there is a loss that we need to be able to touch into. They inform us…
Blog: Defending Against Loss
…in the thick of diversity work again, and probably more effective. Makes sense . . . According to my sister, I’m no longer at war with the world.” By opening to his own grief…
Grieving and Timeless Love
…of loss, and how our sorrows and grief can become a portal to awakening our heart and spirit. Gradually, you will learn acquaintance With the invisible form of your departed;…
Transcript & Audio ~ Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) (15:27 min.)
…to your primary place of resting attention – the breath, perhaps listening to sounds. In a similar way, when strong emotions arise – fear, sadness, happiness, excitement, grief – you…
Blog: Happy For No Reason
…resentment toward my body caught my attention. As I looked more closely, the resentment quickly gave way to a familiar grief. Why couldn’t I just walk on this earth without…
Blog: From Longing to Belonging
…pressing ache in my chest opened into a deep grief—grief for all the lost moments of love, moments I’d missed because I’d been too preoccupied or busy to stop and…
The Fires of Loss
We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with…
Blog: Awakening Through Anger
…weeping. Inside the rage, she’d found an empty place, a place that felt loveless. Now what was revealing itself was grief: grief for the loss of love in her life….
The Fires of Loss
We all encounter the great losses of our own health and life, and of cherished others. We are conditioned to resist opening to the rawness and grief that comes with…
Transcript: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
…the depth of sorrow but so much a kind of love that was timeless. And it came from absolutely opening to the fear and underneath that the grief about her…
Blog: “Please Love Me”
…okay, we’re here together” as Julia gave in to the agony of held-back fear and grief. After about twenty minutes, with interludes for tissues and water, Julia quieted. She was…
Responding to Change with a Wise Heart
…to meeting impermanence with an allowing presence, and then responding to our circumstances with wisdom and compassion. Find more resources on change, impermanence, grief and loss at: https://www.tarabrach.com/grief/ image: jonathanfoust.com…