Tara Talks – Opening to Reality Means Full Engagement (not Resignation) (2:31 min.)
Every time our heart gets really broken open by loss, there can be more attunement to what it means to be unconditionally loving. This frees us to act more fully, honestly, true to our hearts. Listen to the full talk: River of Change – Part 1: Bringing a Wise Heart to...
Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (21:37 min.)
This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliveness and the space that holds and is intrinsic to all life. A body scan using this breath opens us to the body as a field of aliveness. We then rest in the changing flow of...
Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees Our Heart
The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of our future. This talk explores the difference between “limbic” intentions driven by grasping or fear, and intentions that are the call of our awakening heart. You will learn how to...
Tonglen – Transforming Suffering into Compassion (Japanese) ~ トンレン−苦しみから慈悲の心へ
チベットでは、トンレンという全てを慈悲、哀れみの心で包み込むという瞑想方法があります
Meditation: Radical Acceptance of Pain (Japanese) ~ 痛みを根本から容認する瞑想
体の苦しみや痛みは私たちの中にある抵抗感に気がつく機会であり、その苦しみを受け止め、手放し、ありのままに見つめる気持ちへの入り口ともなります。
New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and in widening circles, to our world. photo: Bess-Hamiti –...
Meditation: Embracing Life with a Smile (Japanese) ~ 笑顔で人生を包む
笑顔を感じながら瞑想すると、全てを根本から受け止める精神、本来、オープンで、愛に満ち溢れている人生を思い出す役割を果たしてくれるのです。
Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom
Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom ~ This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner aspects of each refuge, and then through guided reflections and a Refuge Ritual, deepen our commitment to the pathways...
Meditation: Saying Yes (Japanese) ~ はい」という（難しい状況の中で）
どんな状況に対しても「はい」という気持ちで受け止められるようになると私達の意識は自由でオープンであることがわかります。
Vipassana Meditation (Japanese) ~ ヴィパッサナー（マインドフル）瞑想
このガイド瞑想はヴィパッサナー（マインドフル）瞑想です。仏教では、マインドフルネスを開拓する練習をヴィパッサナーと呼びます。
Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
From the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year’s retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.
Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk)
We are conditioned to go into a limbic trance—an emotional reactivity to life within and around us—that keeps us identified with a limited, separate sense of self. This talk helps us to identify the flags of trance, and to bring a healing attention that frees us to...
Meditation: “Yes” to Life (13 min.)
This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence with the intention to truly say “Yes” to experience, allowing life to be just as it is. photo: Suzanne...