Tara Brach, PhD, is the world's leading meditation teacher, a clinical psychologist, and the bestselling author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, and Radical Compassion. Tara is the founder of the Insight Meditation Center of Washington, DC.

Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.

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Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - We leave presence by contracting into
thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in
gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is.

Let go of what is past
Let go of what may come
Let go of what is happening now
Don’t try to figure anything out
Don’t try to make anything happen
Relax right now and rest

~ Tibetan teaching

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be

Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing -
preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate
self. The suffering is that this self-fixation obscures the depth and mystery of
our being. In this talk we explore how to relate wisely to selfing, and discover
the light and love that express our true nature.

Freedom Beyond Selfing

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening
our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence
that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the presence over and over,
we become familiar with the reality that is truly our home.

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home

Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life –
including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention.
While our intentions are usually marbled with 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 can become
aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most
awake and loving heart.

Realizing Your Deepest Intention

Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness -
Part 1 -

Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two
weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This is the first installment
of a five-part audio documentary series, something we’ve never done before now.
Over the course of the episodes, we talk to His Holiness about practical
strategies for thorny dilemmas, including: how to get along with difficult
people; whether compassion can cut it in an often brutal world; why there is a
self-interested case for not being a jerk; and how to create social connection
in an era of disconnection. We also get rare insights from the Dalai Lama into
everything from the mechanics of reincarnation to His Holiness’s own personal
mediation practice. 

In this first installment, Dan watches as a young activist directly challenges
His Holiness: In a world plagued by climate change, terrorism, and other
existential threats, is the Dalia Lama’s message of compassion practical — or
even relevant? 

Want more of The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness? Download the Ten Percent
Happier app wherever you get your apps.

The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides
us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the
body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When
we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also
discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a
prayer that includes our own being and all beings.

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where
humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the
sacred shining through? This talk explores our potential for trusting the love
and awareness that animate our living world. We investigate the suffering of
othering, how the trance of separateness blinds us to our basic goodness, and
then explore the practices that open our eyes to the larger truth of our shared
belonging.

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland
Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and
professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of
psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression
or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon
Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and
psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep
inner freedom in the face of mortality.

Information about the endowment fund: The Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D.
Professorship Fund [https://griffithsfund.org] in Psychedelic Research on
Secular Spirituality and Well-Being

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to
access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to
ease-filled sleep.

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need
to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with
PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma
cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience
of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate sufficient
safety for the full transformational healing of mindfulness to unfold. The gift
of processing trauma is that the place of woundedness becomes a gateway into
profound love, healing, and freedom.

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing

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