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.

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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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Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.

 

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liberating acceptance, a heartspace that includes all of life and enables us to respond to our world with deep intelligence and compassion. all life.

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve our freedom. Key to this process is reconnecting with our inner life, and remembering we are in this together, awakening together.

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) - Addictions of all
levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans
are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with
engineered products and substances that are highly addictive leads to great
suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we
know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve our freedom.
Key to this process is reconnecting

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2)

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence - This meditation establishes a kind attention
by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then,
with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We
end with a brief loving kindness reflection.

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and
universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get
imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN
meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness
that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear.

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart

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Tara Brach, Ph.D., 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.

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