…the suffering of self-hatred. A look of confusion came over the Dalai Lama’s face. “What is self-hatred?” he asked. As the therapists and teachers in the room tried to explain,…
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Blog: Everybody Has Buddha Nature – Tara Brach
…the suffering of self-hatred. A look of confusion came over the Dalai Lama’s face. “What is self-hatred?” he asked. As the therapists and teachers in the room tried to explain,…
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…
Blog: Meeting Our Edge and Softening
…and worries, trying to make things safe and okay, and it can give us at least a temporary sense of self-efficacy and self-trust. Yet, great loss can unseat the controller,…
How to Stop the War Against Yourself – A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris
It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that rather than safety, this pervasive habit in our society creates…
Blog: Emptiness Dancing
…I also like to ask myself, “How is this empty, awake heart experiencing what’s happening?” It’s illuminating to step out of our story of self, and simply receive sensations, feelings,…
Running Away Deepens the Trance
…a self that will attract others and secure our belonging. And yet, when we inevitably express our natural aggression or neediness or fear—parts of our emotional makeup that frequently are…
Blog: Deep Listening: Ear of the Heart
…the “ear of the heart.” This deep listening offers a compassionate space for healing and intimacy. One of my meditation students, Kate, discovered the power of listening in her relationship…
Running Away Deepens the Trance
…a self that will attract others and secure our belonging. And yet, when we inevitably express our natural aggression or neediness or fear—parts of our emotional makeup that frequently are…
RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation (14:40 min.)
…a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. Using the acronym RAIN, this practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing…
Blog: The Trance of Fear
…happen and strategizing how to avoid them. Through I-ing and My-ing, the self takes center stage in these stories: Something terrible is about to happen to me; I am powerless;…
Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts
…how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace. NOTE: Captions available…
Your RAIN Story
…what is going on; Allow the experience to be there, just as it is; Investigate with interest and care; Nourish with self-compassion. Please submit your offering on the below form,…
Meditation: Transforming Fear (11:19 min.)
This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to where we feel most vulnerable….
Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit – Part 2
…highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve…
Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit – Part 1
…highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve…
Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves (retreat talk)
…we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others….
Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment (10:48 min.)
In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness,…
Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly
…of psychology and meditation, the healing of self-compassion, the power of short glimpses into the nature of reality, RAIN, prayer, awakening through social identities, turning toward dying, centering joy and…
Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other”
…can use the practices of mindfulness and compassion to decondition our habits of self-blame and self-hatred, as well as the importance of helping each other defuse the trance of unworthiness….
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