Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou – Being Home (23:49 min.)

Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou – Being Home (23:49 min.)

This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence – arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back to our senses…into the openhearted awareness that is our true home. I long as does...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:32 min.)

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (23:32 min.)

This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and...
Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk:’ An Undefended Heart

Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk:’ An Undefended Heart

Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available,  living true to our heart. This talk explores the challenges and blessings of taking the exquisite risk, both in becoming more intimate with our inner...
Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:25 min.)

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (18:25 min.)

This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be...
The Power of Spiritual Hope

The Power of Spiritual Hope

The openness to possibility is essential on a path of awakening and freedom. In this talk we explore what makes up mature or spiritual hope, and how two meditation practices of presence can nourish our hope. May all beings remember the depth of our longing for full...
Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN (15:17 min)

Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN (15:17 min)

While RAIN is regularly used for untangling suffering, it is also a powerful tool for deepening our access to positive states like happiness, gratitude, wonder and love. This meditation guides us in nourishing the goodness that is an intrinsic part of living and...

Working with Our Stories: An Interview with Tara Brach

The following interview originally appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Inquiring Mind (vol. 20 number 1). © 2003 Inquiring Mind. Reprinted by permission. www.inquiringmind.com Inquiring Mind: In your book you talk about being caught for years in what you call “the...