…When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation…
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:40 min.)
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Talks and Meditations with Videos
Talks and Meditations with Videos A collection of all of Tara’s talks and meditations that include videos. Also view Tara Talks – a web series of short videos from the…
Meditation: Loving Presence – includes a smile body scan (20:11 min)
This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a…
Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (18:01 min.)
Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and…
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (19:09 min.)
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence – This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming…
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life (28:56 min.)
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the…
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (22:07 min.)
This guided meditation invites you into the living presence that is always here—an awake awareness that can hold the changing waves of sensation, emotion, and thought with tenderness and ease….
Metta Meditation – Happiness (26:29 min)
Metta Meditation – Happiness (Lovingkindness Practice) – (same afternoon as Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness (Lovingkindness Practice), but longer – 26 min)…
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (14:29 min.)
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these…
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (retreat) (26:55 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then…
Guided Meditation – “Awakening Compassion – Tonglen” (37:10 min.)
…This meditation, “Awakening Compassion,” is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence (meditation given at the 2011 IMCW New Year’s Silent retreat)….
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) (23:14 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then…
Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness) (11:48 min)
Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness) – Short heart meditation from the end of the talk, “Part 1: Universal Faces of Love” (audio and video)…
Meditation: Listening to Life (18:54 min.)
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations,…
Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (from retreat) (27:40)
This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness. Includes an application of the RAIN of…
RAIN Partners Co-Meditation: Audio Guided Session (13:31 min.)
…Partners Protocol NOTE: This post has been edited to include a shorter RAIN meditation. Listen to the original 33:43-minute RAIN partner meditation here. Listen to and/or download the RAIN audio…
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:44 min)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment…
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19:00 min)
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness ~ In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This…
Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own…
Meditation: Breath and Presence (18:32 min)
Meditation: Breath and Presence – For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establishing the…
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