Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara Brach and Roland Griffiths
Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered...
Trusting the Gold – Realizing Our Basic Goodness
Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love and awareness that animate our living world. We investigate the suffering of...
Realizing Your Deepest Intention
The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into...
IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel
IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel – In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, “IntraConnected.” They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come...
Meditation: Body and Spirit (19:43 min.)
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary Oliver. Poem (the spirit likes to dress up)The spiritlikes to dress up like this:ten...
IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel
IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel – In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, “IntraConnected.” They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come...
Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation: Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness
In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about his 4 1/2 years on a wandering retreat and the lessons he learned from a near-death experience. The two then talk about what it means to befriend panic as well as other strong emotions, and the qualities that express...
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care. When we are awake and whole, breathing in and out happens...
The Calling of These Times – Part 2
The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current global crises? These two talks explore what these times are drawing forward in us individually and...
The Calling of These Times – Part 1
The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current global crises? These two talks explore what these times are drawing forward in us individually and...
Mind Our Democracy Together: Spiritual Action for the Midterms and Beyond
Mind Our Democracy Together: Spiritual Action for the Midterms and Beyond [streamed 2022-11-03] Are you feeling distressed about the future of our democracy? Are you ready to engage with others seeking to turn contemplative practice into spiritually-based activism?...
Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope
Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively, and the trust that this is possible. This talk explores how, especially in stressful times, this hope gets clouded over by fear; and how when it is alive,...
Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene
What gives us the inner strength to meet life’s challenges with resilience, heart and wisdom? Drawing on themes in Lori’s new book, “The Tiny Buddha’s Inner Strength Journal,” Tara and Lori explore the mindset that is conducive to growth, working with...