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Tara Brach's Dharma Talks
Tara Brach
A pervasive but often invisible source of suffering in our culture is self-aversion. We are a busy culture, and we move through our life feeling anxious and dissatisfied, but not fully conscious of how we neglect or judge our inner experience. We suffer from a lack of belonging: to our own bodies, to each other and to the earth. When we practice Buddhist meditation, we learn how to listen deeply and hold our life tenderly.
1996-05-28 Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart II 55:50
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-05-21 Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart I 60:56
living life reveals that suffering is the gateway to compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-05-07 Belonging To Life 57:39
we all long to belong and suffer when we live in a sense of isolation or contraction. by opening to the "10,000 joys and 10,000 sorrows", we discover a deep sense belonging to the life within and around us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-04-30 Meditation-It's Not What You Think 51:21
our sense of being separate and inadequate is created and maintained through our stories about life. Learning how to recognize these stories with mindfulness and compassion reconnects us with our natural, awakened being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-02-20 Touching Peace 39:55
using concentration skillfully to deepen mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-02-06 Freedom To Love 44:22
coming into a wise relationship with desire
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1996-01-23 Belonging To The World...Refuge In The Sangha 51:38
the Buddha taught that our relationships are an essential and beautiful ground of the spiritual path. Sangha, which means spiritual community, is a refuge that can provide inspiration, support, and profound awakening to the truth of our connectedness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1995-12-30 Trusting Our Buddha Nature 52:09
Learning how we can cultivate a wise and compassionate relationship with the changing weather of our minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
In collection: Trust
1995-03-31 Difficult Forces In Spiritual Life - part 2 51:17
What are the challenging energies that all humans encounter? How do they arise? What is a wise and transformative way of working with these universal forces? These talks describe what have been classically called "The Five Hindrances" and offer instructions for responding to the weather that arises.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
1995-03-06 Compassion 53:12
On the spiritual path, all experience is an opportunity to awaken and express compassion. Widening the circle of compassion begins where we are-- with our inner life and the beings we are engaged with. Our practice is to see clearly what is true, the joys and the sorrows, and experience what arises with a kind and open heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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