• All Meditations • Basic Meditations • Open Awareness Meditations • Special Meditations/Reflections Page 1 of 3123 2018/10/31 - Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity...2018/07/04 - Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:28 min)A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through...2018/06/13 - Short Talk & Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (36:53 min)Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion....2018/06/06 - Short Talk & Meditation: Tonglen – Radical Compassion (32:43 min)We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away,...2018/01/03 - New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins...2017/09/27 - Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:26 min)A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through...2017/09/18 - Reflection: Transforming Suffering & Awakening the Heart (12:45 min.)[Excerpt from Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering a...2017/05/17 - Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (36:04 min) (retreat)A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk...2017/04/12 - Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with...2016/12/31 - Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (35:24 min)We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways...2016/12/01 - Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness (24:56 min)Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that...2016/11/23 - Meditation: Awakening Compassion (11:35 min)Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen ~ Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be...2016/10/19 - Reflection: Deepening the Truths We Share (8:32 min)Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with...2016/09/05 - Meditation: Your Future Self – Accessing the Wisdom of Your Heart (7:17 min)When we are cut off from our natural love and wisdom, there’s a way...2016/08/07 - Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness (28:50 min)Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process...2016/02/24 - Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:31)A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through...2015/12/29 - Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (34:54 min) (from retreat)This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion...2015/12/16 - Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (10:42 min)This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This...2015/11/22 - Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (33:55 min)Scanning the body, filling it with the image of a smile, meditation continues with...2015/10/11 - Guided Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (38:02 min)an open focus meditation from the 2015 IMCW fall retreat Page 1 of 3123