Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life — gratitude and generosity — includes several guided reflections that awaken…
…happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from physical sickness, we can take refuge in presence and love….
Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground– avoiding the insecurity of change,…
…a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfulness can free us to live from our inherent love and wisdom….
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…
…do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to “love what is.”…
…the flags of the stress-trance and three meditative strategies for shifting from fight/flight to attend/befriend. (at end is “Love the One You’re With” by Steven Stills) Tara was traveling this…
…moment, and taking refuge in love, we reconnect with our wholeness, and the timeless presence that is home. This inquiry includes a guided meditation on the power of prayer to…
“We are not the survival of the fittest. We are the survival of the nurtured.” — Louis Cozolino We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many,…
These instructions on the heart practices were given at the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat. A guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home…
We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit – the love and awareness – that animates our own and all beings. In…
Everything we cherish–love, creativity, wisdom, aliveness– arises out of our capacity to arrive in Beingness. This talk explores the stress that leads us to cut off from our natural state…
Equanimity, the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience, is the grounds for unconditional love and wise action. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in reactivity, and…
…the moments fully. This talk looks at how we can let go of controlling, open to the groundlessness we run from, and reconnect with the deep intelligence and love that…
All that we cherish – love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness – becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of…
Tsoknyi Rinpoche (in conversation with Tara Brach) – In talking about his new book, Tibetan teacher Tsoknyi Rinpoche describes the layers of self that cover over our “essence love,” and…
…of what we are, and the pathway to remembering our wholeness. When we know we’re the ocean, we are free to relate to the waves with respect, compassion and love….
…awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life. Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body (German) Dranbleiben und Freundschaft schließen – Die Heilung…
…of unworthiness and reconnect with our intrinsic goodness. In turn, we can offer our blessings to others–serving as reminders of the awareness and love that can blossom in all beings….
…with our inner dialogue. A man or woman of knowledge is aware that the world will change completely as soon as they stop talking to themselves.” Sri Nisargadatta says, “Love…
