Finding True Refuge
Listen to teachers, leaders, new and experienced students share how meditation practice has helped to heal and awaken their hearts. As they reveal their stories in video interviews, discover what inspired them to begin meditating, as well as what has most helped them find peace and freedom in the midst of life’s difficulties.
Taking Refuge
This class explores the three classic gateways to true refuge - Buddha (awareness); Dharma (path, truth of reality) and Sangha (spiritual friends, loving relatedness). It...
Intimacy with Life (Part 2)
Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love - Part 1A - The Buddha taught about four divine abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and...
Intimacy with Life (Part 1)
Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love - Part 1B - The Buddha taught about four divine abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and...
Tara Talks: The “If Only” Mind (3:01 min. video)
Without desire, this world would not exist. Yet if we become possessed by our need to have life a certain way, we lose our capacity for presence and joy. Listen and watch the...
Tara Talks: The Warmth of Compassion (3:44 min. video)
We cultivate compassion by letting ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. As this short presentation shows, this requires intention and courage. Watch and...
Tara Talks: Keeping Busy (5:04 min. video)
We are sometimes described as "human doings" versus "human beings." In this short presentation we look at how our drive to keep busy and to over-achieve is a way of avoiding...
Tara Talks: Catching Fear Thoughts (3:49 min. video)
Unless we recognize it, fear thinking can take over our lives. This brief talk points to the power of these thoughts, and the importance of cultivating mindfulness of them....
Tara Talks: This Moment Counts (3:01 min. video)
Much of our life we have the sense that we are on our way to something else. In this short talk we hear an ancient myth with a timeless reminder: What we are seeking is here,...
Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson was diagnosed with a melanoma after his brother-in-law died from a tumor. Thanks to many years of meditation, he was able to feel a deep sense of peace underneath the...
Krishna Das
Krishna Das asked his Guru how to meditate and he told him to "meditate like Jesus". When he asked him how, this is what he said... (3:45)...
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