Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes…
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Is this Universe a Friendly Place?
…that has to do with togetherness or gathering together, signifying in a very simple way a sense of belonging. According to the Buddhist teachings, it is out of a sense…
Blog: Discovering the Gold – Remembering Our True Nature by Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion
…avoid the failure lurking right around the corner. Space Suit Strategies: How We Manage in a World of Severed Belonging Entering this world is difficult. Due to their own wounds…
Transcript: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
…stop us from sensing our full belonging. So we have to die in a way. And opening to fear is a way of kind of dying. And yet when we…
Longing to Belong
Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes…
Longing to Belong: Bringing Presence through the Three Refuges
Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes…
Transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
…global community of care and belonging that really was quite inspiring. Then, of course, the down again of just feeling the enormity of the intense suffering that is happening, especially…
Blog: Looking Through the Eyes of Another – Transforming Separation into Shared Consciousness
…from our wholeness. It creates suffering. When we live in resentment, we have separated ourselves and pulled away from our belonging. Trance of the Unreal Other All life forms are…
Tara Talks: I Am Not the Fear Body (6:08 min.)
Unprocessed fear creates separation and keeps us from inhabiting the truth of our belonging. When we open to the body of fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of…
Working with Fear – article in Modern Maturity Magazine
…presence around her. When she does this, she says that the fear is still there, but her sense of belonging allows her to deal with it. My own experience is…
Reflection: Bringing RAIN to the Wanting Mind (11:01 min.)
…belonging, we Nurture a feeling of belonging as warmth, openness and tenderness that’s already here. This is the final meditation from the full talk given on March 3, 2020, Desire…
Sheltering In Love – Part 5: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence – Part 1 of 2
The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to all of life….
The Essence of Mindful Prayer: “May this Suffering Awaken Compassion”
…please,” and feel that we are asking “the universe” for help. When we feel disconnected and afraid, we long for the comfort and peace that come from belonging to something…
The Lion’s Roar
…moments of tightening to protect ourselves, we can’t really enjoy the life that’s here. We cultivate a heart that is ready for anything when we trust our belongingness to the…
Blog: Planting Ourselves in the Universe
…forces dispersed in all directions. In that instant of acknowledging his belonging to the earth, Gautama became the Buddha—the awakened one—and was liberated. By claiming this living wholeness, he dissolved…
Blog: Everybody Has Buddha Nature – Tara Brach
…“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather the feeling of not belonging.” In our own society, this disease has reached epidemic proportions. We long to belong…
Blog: Working with Fear – article in Modern Maturity Magazine
…presence around her. When she does this, she says that the fear is still there, but her sense of belonging allows her to deal with it. My own experience is…
Blog: The Transforming Power of Mindful Prayer
…in his book Eternal Echoes, writes: “Prayer is the voice of longing; it reaches outwards and inwards to unearth our ancient belonging.” This is a beautiful description of what I…
Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body
…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…
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…Our Freedom – 2021 A True Taste of Peace – 2020 Radical Compassion – 2019 Finding True Refuge – 2013 From Longing to Belonging (PDF) From Longing to Belonging –…