Tara Brach

Nov 20 2024 1440 ep. 38 mins 11.3k
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Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance (Bantam, 2003), and the senior teacher at the Insight Meditation Community of Washington D.C., shares a weekly talk on Buddhist teachings and practices. At the start of each evening, she guides her listeners through a 30-minute mindfulness guided meditation (also known as Vipassana) and then speaks for about 50 minutes. This podcast will include many of her recent talks and a few past evenings that cover key themes in Buddhist teachings. Information on these evenings, IMCW itself, audio dharma, guided meditations, and much, much more is available at http://www.tarabrach.com and http://www.imcw.org. Please donate at http://imcw.org/Giving.aspx or http://www.tarabrach.com to support continuing this podcast. Your generosity makes a difference!

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Meditation: Vipassana - The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:02 min.)

Nov 20 2024 18 mins  
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear, mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds –

The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD

Nov 14 2024 54 mins  
This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current times. This was initially recorded live for those in Kristin’s membership community and includes several question/responses. For more

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:39 min.)

Nov 13 2024 19 mins  
Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.

Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World

Nov 07 2024 51 mins  
Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.” How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times-- give rise to a growing compassion and wisdom in our world? In this talk we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections, and explore several powerful teachings and practices that can serve as the catalyst for profound transformation, an evolving of wisdom and love

Guided Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual Heart

Nov 06 2024 16 mins  
During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2

Oct 31 2024 60 mins  
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world-- with courageous, wise hearts.

Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (20 min.)

Oct 30 2024 20 mins  
By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive continuous space filled with the light of awareness. This meditation attunes us to these dimensions of awareness: continuous open space, heart space and full aliveness. We end with a Zen p

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1

Oct 24 2024 48 mins  
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding - to ourselves, each other and our world - with courageous, wise hearts.

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:12 min.)

Oct 23 2024 20 mins  
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community

Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self

Oct 17 2024 58 mins  
The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing - the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being.