We suffer when our words or actions arise from unconscious wants and fears. This talk explores how we can awaken from the habitual ways we cause harm to ourselves and…
Living Aligned with the Heart
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Three Attitudes that Awaken and Free Our Spirit
Our predicament is intuiting our true nature–love, awareness–and yet regularly contracting into the self-identity conditioned by wants and fears. This talk explores three essential and liberating ways of relating to…
Befriending the Deities
The fruit of practice is releasing our identification with core beliefs and fear-based emotions, and realizing and inhabiting our Natural awareness. This is described as the N in RAIN –…
Listening To Our Life
Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural state–awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening attention dissolves the tangles of fear…
Wise Effort and Spiritual Freedom
In the Buddhist tradition, wise effort, or the purposeful dedication of our energy, is an essential part of the spiritual path. While the attitudes of grasping or fear can contract…
The Unreal Other – Awakening empathy and wisdom
When we experience others through a conditioned lens of wants and fears, and of unexamined beliefs, we react in ways that cause distance and sometimes obvious injury. This talk explores…
Lovingkindness: Living with a Wise Heart
The Buddha taught that our fear is great, but greater yet is the truth of our connectedness. These two talks examine the often unconscious habits that generate the pain of…
Embodying Loving Presence (Retreat Talk)
This talk looks at the evolutionary fear-patterning that creates separation in our relationships, and at the practices that open us to giving and receiving love. (from the IMCW long weekend…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2
…misunderstandings about surrender (such as the fear that we will become passive or condone injustice) and the practices that create the grounds for surrender, emotional healing, transformational activism and spiritual…
The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1
…misunderstandings about surrender (such as the fear that we will become passive or condone injustice) and the practices that create the grounds for surrender, emotional healing, transformational activism and spiritual…
The Courage to Love – Part 2
…contact and transform our fears into awake and loving presence. An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love”…
Befriending Irene
…weather within. Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom–the mindfulness and compassion–that free you. This talk explores…
An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart
Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom and care. This talk explores the pathway of shifting from reacting…
The Sacred Art of Listening
Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening,…
Realizing Your Deepest Intention
…wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we…
Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol – 2025
…most difficult /painful thing I am believing? What emotions does this bring up (fear, anger, grief?) Where do I feel these emotions inside? What do I notice when I assume…
JAPANESE Taraのお話: 受け止めたメッセージ
タラのお話: 受け取ったメッセージ Tara Brach （字幕：マジストラリ佐々木啓乃） 幼い頃の自分と出会い、両親から受け取った期待感を思い出すガイド瞑想。こうしてはダメ、こうなりなさい、という幼い頃に受け止めたメッセージは私達の中でどの様な影響を及ぼしているのでしょうか？ タラのお話全編はこちらから（英語）: Freedom from Fear-Based Beliefs To watch this clip with English captions: https://youtu.be/jH9ZkkTYTS4 タラのポッドキャストアクセスはこちらから: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tara-brach/id265264862?mt=2 タラのメールリストにサインアップし、タラの最新情報、イベント、ガイド瞑想、そして無料の１０分ガイド瞑想「マインドフル呼吸：落つきを平穏を見つける」を直ぐに受け取りましょう。サインアップはこちらから: https://www.tarabrach.com/join-email-list/ この無料談話は全てあなたの様な方からのご援助で成り立っています。この談話があなたのお役に立った様であれば、どんな金額でも構いませんので寄付をお願いできれば幸いです。 寄付ページはこちらから：https://www.tarabrach.com/donation/ With thanks and love, Tara…
Tara Talks: Remembering Our Shared Humanity (8:43 min.)
…fear, separation and judgment, we forget our shared humanity. This primitive conditioning is what drives the cruelty that has become the dis-ease of our society. Transformation and healing can begin…
Tara Talks – Guided Reflection: Coming Home with Attend and Befriend (6:34 min.)
…kind presence to the life inside of us, we come home to the truth of our belonging. Listen and watch Tara’s full talk: Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body…
Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom
…conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part…
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