We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or…
Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part 1
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Awakening from the Trance of Unworthiness – An interview with Tara and Dr. Mark Hyman
…at how we wake up out of the stories that keep us in fear and self-doubt and discover a true intimacy with ourselves and our world. Photo Credit: Shell Fischer…
Realizing Your Deepest Desires
This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake awareness and love. We explore ways…
Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:12 min.)
…comes from resting in presence. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and…
Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention
Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear,…
Meditation: From Head to Full Being (19:05 min.)
…you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. Rumi…
Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real
…prayer to god every day: Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears.” Elizabeth Lesser https://youtu.be/_1qJrqn3NHM…
Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in…
Buddhists Help Get Out the Vote
Buddhists Help Get Out the Vote In this time of great fear, it is important that we think of the long-term challenges—and possibilities—of the entire globe. Photographs of our world…
Blog: Being a Mirror of Goodness: An Intention for the New Year
…It’s an intimate offering, one that can bring up self-consciousness, discomfort and/or the fear that what is shared won’t be welcome. Maybe we think we aren’t a significant figure in…
TaraTalks: Meditating with RAIN – Working with Difficult Emotions (11:43 min.)
…fear or anger, we begin to realize who we are beyond any limiting identity. The short video below provides step-by-step instructions on how to use this powerful practice when facing…
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (19:34 min.)
…I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake…
Change, Loss and Timeless Love – Part 2 (Retreat Talk)
…at the ways, we resist facing our fears and grieving our losses. We then explore how to bring mindfulness and compassion to processing what we’ve resisted, and opening to the…
Instruction and Meditation: Pathway to Non-Doing Presence (41:30 min.)
…the weak; fear, fantasies, failures and success. When loss rips off the doors of the heart, or sadness veils your vision with despair, practice becomes simply bearing the truth. In…
Change, Loss and Timeless Love (Part 1)
…at the ways, we resist facing our fears and grieving our losses. We then explore how to bring mindfulness and compassion to processing what we’ve resisted, and opening to the…
Your Future Self: Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind
Our lives are shaped by our evolutionary past – the fears and wants that arise from a separate self sense – and the pull of our evolutionary potential – our…
Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence
…how, when we’re reacting from anger, clinging or fear, to pause, reconnect to the immediate experience of “just this” and remember the love and awareness that has room for the changing…
Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart (22:00 min.)
…are the love we long for no end and no beginning bigger than our deepest fear fresh and clear in every moment it’s love that makes us whole Danna Faulds…
Radical Love: Part 2 – Loving Ourselves into Healing
…self—and how we can call on the light and warmth of awareness to awaken that love. “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know…
Learning to Respond, Not React
When stressed, we often react with looping fear-thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause harm to ourselves and/or others. This talk offers three interrelated strategies that can serve us when we’re…
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