…parts of yourself that you habitually reject and push away. Do I accept my body as it is? Do I blame myself when I get sick? Do I feel I…
Guided Reflection: Recognizing the Trance of Unworthiness
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Parenting Teens in Uncertain Times – Free 10-Day Online Summit
…with your family, reduce stress and anxiety and work through difficult emotions Discover evidence-based ways to reduce self-judgment and disarm your inner critic Understand the science behind the major changes…
Part 1 of 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us
A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves….
Blog: Suffering: The Call To Investigate Beliefs
…Whether our beliefs arouse self-loathing, trap us in self-destructive addictions, ensnare us in conflict with a partner, or send us to war with an enemy, we’re suffering because we’re mistaken…
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2
…our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we…
Blog: Pain Is Not Wrong
…a waterfall of reactivity. Fear, itself made up of unpleasant sensations, only compounds the pain—now we not only want to get away from the original pain, but also from the…
Working With Difficulties: The Blessings of RAIN
…fail. You can awaken recognition simply by asking yourself: “What is happening inside me right now?” Call on your natural curiosity as you focus inward. Try to let go of…
Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are
…with our “mask” or ego self, and not seeing past other people’s masks. In this talk we reflect together on some key filters of superior/inferior and good/bad that shape the…
Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 1
…our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part 1 focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we…
Realizing True Nature: A conversation with A.H. Almaas and Tara Brach
A.H. Almaas is an author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization. In this interview we explore ways of approaching awakening to who we are, and look…
Realizing Our Basic Goodness – 2
Our greatest suffering is not realizing who we are. Identified with a sense of separate and deficient self, we forget the basic goodness of our heart and awareness. In this…
Realizing Our Basic Goodness – 1
Our greatest suffering is not realizing who we are. Identified with a sense of separate and deficient self, we forget the basic goodness of our heart and awareness. In this…
Trusting the Gold (retreat talk)
This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self. We then explore the practices of…
Accepting Absolutely Everything
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” Carl Rogers Mohini was a regal white tiger who lived for many years…
Evening Satsang – “Peace is This Moment”
…to RAIN, meditation practice and self-judgment. The evening closes with a prayer for peace. NOTE: Satsang means exploring and realizing truth in the gathering of spiritual friends. The word comes…
Bringing Awareness to Doing
…looks at how addictive doing keeps us in the map of time, identified as a separate self, always on our way somewhere else. We then explore ways we undo this…
Awakening from Virtual Reality
…us to heal historical wounding and discover who we are beyond the self-story in our mind. We don’t have to believe our thoughts; they are “real but not true!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovLybaPN2-k&feature=youtu.be…
Humility
…expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our conditioning and culture reinforce a swing from ego-inflation (self-importance, feeling special, better than others) to ego-deflation (feeling unworthy). We then look…
Question and Response
Tara explores a range of questions that include working with unworthiness, recognizing aspiration, stepping out of the story and understanding the selfless quality of experience….
Three Gestures of Love
If we inquire “what is between me and presence” we usually find we’ve been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This talk explores a…
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