Tara Talks: A Forgiving Heart (2:42 min. video)
What is the real process of forgiving when we’ve been hurt? This short talk focuses on the key element that allows us to let go of blame and free our hearts.
Heart Meditation: Three Domains of Forgiveness (34:14 min)
…with instruction from the 2015 IMCW Women’s Retreat.
Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 – Forgiveness
This 3 part series is based on a teaching story from the Upanishads that shows our potential to awaken from an ego-based trance and discover the full luminosity and freedom of our natural awareness. In each class we’ll explore one of the three gifts considered...
Retreat Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (32:56 min)
Instruction and guided heart forgiveness practice from the 2014 IMCW New Year’s Retreat.
Guided Forgiveness Meditation (11:23 min)
NOTE: an excerpt from the end of the “A Forgiving Heart” talk on 2/26/2014. Includes a poem from Rumi at the end.
Forgiving Our Way to Freedom
Living with chronic blame or resentment is a trance that confines us to a limited fragment of what we are. This talk looks at the ways this trance is fueled and the process by which we release the armoring around our hearts.
Blog: Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends
We are deeply imprinted by the suffering we have caused others. This imprint is sometimes felt as shame, guilt, or remorse, and it is our heart’s sensitivity calling us to attention. In the Buddhist teachings, such sensitivity can be intelligent and healthy—it plays...
A Forgiving Heart – Embracing Our Inner Life
Self-aggression, whether it’s low key blame or deep condemnation, prevents us from intimacy with others and discovering the truth and wholeness of our Being. This talk explores how we can release self-blame, and free ourselves to access our natural warmth and creativity in responding to our world.
Self-Forgiveness – 2