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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.
2002-01-23 Befriending Difficult Emotions 58:30
Often without realizing it, painful emotions, like fear or anger give rise to the conviction that "something is wrong". When instead we receive our inner weather with an acceptance and wise attention, we reconnect with our national compassion and wholeness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-07-31 Reverence For Life: The Essence Of Engaged Buddhism 56:46
The bodhisattva path arises out of a love for life. We awaken this love as we realize our belonging to our inner life, each other and the natual world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2002-09-04 Making Peace With Pain 50:38
Our conditioning to resist pain creates trance—we become identified as a small, victimized, threatened self. We have the capacity, through mindful, kind attention, to discover genuine freedom in the midst of pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
2005-01-20 Pathways To Belonging - The Three Refuges 63:22
Explore bringing alive the refuges as our true nature, moment - to - moment experience and the field or relatedness. Includes guided reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
1997-09-30 Remembering Who We Are 52:40
exploring the power of intention; invocation and wakeful presence in returning to the source
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1997-10-11 Facing Difficulties With An Open Heart 50:44
realizing freedom as we bring understanding and compassion to challenging circumstances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-04-28 Unconditionally Friendly Toward Life 62:19
large portions of our life are raced through in a mechanical and uncaring way. this talk focuses on the ways that we compartmentalize spiritual life. guided meditations and reflections address how we can cultivate the quality of unconditional caring presence in the midst of all experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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
2001-10-23 Awakening From The Trance 58:56
The sense of being a "separate self" seems quite real and both filters and contracts our moment to moment experience of life. This talk investigates how the compelling show of separate self arises and how we can recognize and relax into our naturally radiant, compassionate and unconfined awareness.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center
1998-10-27 Training Precepts On The Buddhist Path 58:00
guidelines for wise and compassionate living
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

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