Blog: Notes on Healing and Awakening

Blog ~ Meditation: What is Your Deepest Longing?
Meditation: What is Your Deepest Longing? Download text in PDF - Find a comfortable way of sitting, and allow yourself to relax and be at ease. With a receptive presence, become...

Resources for Plant-Based Eating
Resources from the Vegan Sangha “All beings fear danger, life is dear to all. When a person considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.” (Dhammapada, 129) There are a lot...
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Blog: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are [FREE Half Day Retreat Included]
Creating a Home Retreat with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman Download in PDF: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are Hi Dear Ones, When a widespread...

Blog: Two Versions of Acronym RAIN
The Two Versions of the Acronym RAIN: There have been two primary forms of the RAIN acronym circulating in the meditation spheres, and we would like to clarify between the...

Blog ~ Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty (text and audio)
Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Download in PDF: Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Guided Reflection: Bringing RAIN to Difficulty Sitting quietly,...

Blog: The RAIN of Self-Compassion
The RAIN of Self-Compassion View or download the PDF version Link to talk: The RAIN of Self-Compassion Link to Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion Translations: تأمل مطر من...

Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol
What Are RAIN Partners? RAIN - Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture, the process of bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions, can be practiced with another person...

Blog: Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year
Blog: Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year Adapted from: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAINTara Brach,...

Blog: Working with Pain – Summary of Mindfulness Strategies
See also: Resources for Working with Pain Working with Pain – Summary of Mindfulness Strategies At one time or another, we will all want to learn how to use our meditation...

Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. – Chapter One
CHAPTER ONE: RAIN Creates a Clearing Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life. ~ Martha...

Transcript & Audio ~ Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) (15:27 min.)
Download in PDF: Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) The Buddhist practice for developing mindfulness is called vipassana, which means “clear insight” or...

Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN
Turning Toward Fear with RAIN Adapted from Tara's new book: Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. In a far-off land, word...

Blog – RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion
RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion Download a free printable guide here: RAIN: A Practice of Radical Compassion (PDF). Português [.pdf]: RAIN: Uma Prática de Compaixão...

Transcript ~ Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship
~ A Talk Given by Tara Brach, on November 29, 2019 - Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central...

Transcript: Tonglen: Radical Compassion
Tonglen: Radical Compassion A Short Talk and Guided Meditation from the IMCW Spring Retreat, 2017 Tara Brach Listen or watch: Tonglen: Radical Compassion (audio and video with...

Blog: About LGBTQIA and Use of Pronouns
About LGBTQIA and Use of Pronouns LESBIAN A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Some lesbians may prefer to identify as gay or...

Blog: Shifting from Blame to Love: 3 Practices for a Wise Heart
Evolution has rigged all of us with a negativity bias—a survival-driven habit to scan for what’s wrong and to fixate on it. In contemporary society, a pervasive target is our own...

Transcript: The Sacred Pause
~~ A Talk Given by Tara Brach, PhD on September 30, 2015 Listen and watch: The Sacred Pause Download in PDF: The Sacred Pause (PDF) Namaste and welcome. I was moved by a NPR...

Blog: Looking Through the Eyes of Another – Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness
Looking Through the Eyes of Another: Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness I often talk about how suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of ourselves. Only...

Blog: What You Practice Grows Stronger: Choosing Joy to De-Condition Our Negativity Bias
What You Practice Grows Stronger:Choosing Joy to De-Condition Our Negativity Bias Some years back, I was talking with a woman in our community. She was a breast cancer survivor...