…we are loved, to find ourselves lovable. It isn’t only addicts who experience the hole in the soul. So how do we deal with a hole in the soul? We…
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Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (27:44 min.)
…to inhabit the full aliveness, creativity and love our natural being. In the shared quiet, an invitation arises like a white dove lifting from a limb and taking flight. Come…
Healing Relationships with RAIN – Half-Day Online Workshop with Tara Brach
…stuck in emotional reactivity, and explore the inner work that can create the grounds for more understanding and love. This workshop is appropriate for beginning meditators as well as seasoned…
Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence
If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores…
Blog: Deep Listening: Ear of the Heart
Most of us consider listening a great virtue. We love having others listen to us with interest and care, and we hope to be good listeners ourselves. But for most…
Blessings of a Patient Heart
…is. We can ask ourselves “What really matters?” and remember that what we most value—love, compassion, intimacy, creativity—is found in wholehearted presence. We can reaffirm the bodhisattva’s aspiration that this,…
Blog: The Three Qualities of Awareness
…to mind—a person, situation, emotion—the spontaneous response is warmth or tenderness. This is the third quality of awareness: the expression of unconditional love or compassion. Tibetan Buddhists call this the…
Blog: Emptiness Dancing
This entire living world – including these forms we call self – is a creative arising and dissolving of empty awareness. I love the Zen phrase “emptiness dancing,” because it…
Blog: Gift to the Soul: The Space of Presence
…we were much younger then and more impressionable. Love, Dad. As you know, it’s not just students. Some months ago a friend described getting caught in this state busy-ness while…
RAIN of Self-Compassion – Half-Day Online Retreat
…the RAIN practice can help us love ourselves into healing. This workshop is appropriate for beginning meditators as well as seasoned practitioners. Everyone is welcome! Learn More & Register Here’s…
Blog: Absolute Cooperation with the Inevitable – Tara Brach
…is actually happening is that we’re opening to the universal intelligence, the universal love that can flow through us when we’re aligned. When the straw is aligned with the current,…
Blog: Gift to the Soul: The Space of Presence
…Of course, we were much younger then and more impressionable. Love, Dad As you know, it’s not just students. Some months ago a friend described getting caught in this state…
Loving Yourself into Freedom (Retreat Talk)
The most basic truths we forget, and one is this: if we don’t love ourselves, we can’t love life. In the most basic way, attending to and embracing our inner…
Sure Heart’s Release
The pathway to our awakened heart includes deep recognition of our barriers to love, and as we open, the courage to express our love. This talk includes a reflection and…
Inhabiting Our Bodies with Presence
…our power, intuition and capacity to love in a full way. This talk looks at the ways we leave our body and the path of homecoming to living loving presence….
Embodying Loving Presence (Retreat Talk)
This talk looks at the evolutionary fear-patterning that creates separation in our relationships, and at the practices that open us to giving and receiving love. (from the IMCW long weekend…
The Joy of Conscious Relationships
We live in a relational field, and as we develop the capacity for presence with others, we discover the truth of our connectedness. This discovery is experienced as love, and…
Tara Talks – Reflection: Healing Self-Blame
When we are stuck in blaming, disliking or hating ourselves, we are unable to love our world. In this guided reflection we’ll explore using the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture) to begin…
Blog: Creating an Unreal Other
It is easy to be untouched by stories we read in the newspaper, on the Internet or watch on the news about people suffering from unemployment, loss of loved ones,…
Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging
“We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.” — Louis Cozolino [CC] ~ We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for…