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Tara Brach

While meditation is widely practiced in today’s world, many miss the opportunity to tap into its profound potential to awaken the heart and mind. Beyond its surface benefits, meditation can guide us to the radiant light, boundless love, and pure awareness that is our true nature. This reflection explores how we often lose touch with the deeper possibility meditation offers, and guides us in approaching practice and daily life in a way that opens us to the timeless freedom and awakening of a Buddha.
 
In this week’s talk, Tara explores:
 
 • Ways that deepening our meditation practice can help us navigate personal and collective challenges with greater ease.
 • The power of mindful presence to awaken compassion and build resilience in the face of difficulty.
 • Self-compassion as an essential practice for healing and reconnecting with our inner goodness.
 • The transformative role of spiritual community (sangha) in nurturing belonging and shared purpose.
 • How the practices of mindfulness and self-compassion can help us awaken from habitual reactivity and find a greater sense of connectedness and freedom.

The Infinite Game - From Self-Improvement to Spiritual Freedom

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert

This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again, learning to rest in the formless awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all passing experience.

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan

What if a key to personal and collective transformation lies in reclaiming our deep capacities for presence and imagination? In this two-part series, we’ll explore how mindfulness awakens us from the trance of fear and separation, reconnecting us with our innate clarity and compassion. And we’ll discover how imagination, when grounded in presence, becomes a superpower—allowing us to envision new possibilities for our lives, our relationships, and our world. These talks include reflections that activate imagination in ways that can heal our hearts, deepen connection with others and help bring forth a more loving, just and awakened world. In this week’s talk (Part 2), Tara explores:
 
 • How shifting our perceptions through imagination can free us from habitual fear and separation. 
 • The power of storytelling to awaken compassion and soften rigid patterns of reactivity. 
 • How imagination helps us reconnect with our inner wholeness and sense of possibility. 
 • The practice of mindful presence as a gateway to creative and loving awareness. 
 • How we can reimagine our identity, releasing limiting beliefs and touching into our true belonging. 
 
 
 
https://www.tarabrach.com/healing-power-of-imagination-2/

The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 2

This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to deepen the experience of receptivity and openness. The meditation progresses to include all experience - sounds, sensations, thoughts, feelings - in the vast, transparent, timeless space of awareness.

Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)

Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if we are to navigate the great divides that separate us from our inner life and others. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the fears and vulnerability that ask for our attention. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that cultivate this essential domain of human potential. Our focus is both on the transformational power of listening in our personal lives, and also the necessity for deep listening if we are to bring healing to our wider society. 
 
 
 
In this talk, Tara explores:
 
 how listening softens distance between hearts and invites deeper connection. “listening to the song” as a way to honor the essence beyond our roles and stories. common obstacles to presence—distraction, fear, and agendas that block true listening. how deep listening can help heal old wounds, allowing love and aliveness to flow more freely. listening with an undefended heart, willing to be changed by what we hear.

Listening to the Song – Part 1

Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself. 
 
 
 
 https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-silence-that-is-listening-2/

Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:32 min.)

Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if we are to navigate the great divides that separate us from our inner life and others. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the fears and vulnerability that ask for our attention. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that cultivate this essential domain of human potential. Our focus is both on the transformational power of listening in our personal lives, and also the necessity for deep listening if we are to bring healing to our wider society. 
 
In this talk, Tara explores:
 
 • listening as a spiritual path that heals wounds and deepens connection with ourselves and others.
 • how to quiet the “dense forest” of thoughts to meet others with presence and care.
 • practical ways to stay present—using anchors, pauses, and self-coaching in conversations.
 • how compassionate listening helps others feel seen, restoring a sense of aliveness and belonging.
 • listening as a bridge for reconciliation, revealing our shared humanity and capacity for healing.
 
 
 
https://www.tarabrach.com/listening-to-the-song-part2-2/

Listening to the Song – Part 2

2011-10-19 - Divine Abodes: Compassion - We cultivate compassion by letting ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. Because our conditioning is to avoid vulnerability, the path of compassion requires courage and purposefulness. As we awaken to the truth of our connectedness, our hearts become increasingly tender and our actions serve the healing of our world. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donation makes a difference! Thank you!

Divine Abodes: Compassion

2012-09-19 Guided Meditation: Embodied Spirit

Guided Meditation: Embodied Spirit

Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 1 (2017-11-29) - While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, heart and mind. Our resistance to the direct experience of fear sustains the trance and leads to decisions and behaviors that harm ourselves and others. Only by facing fear with mindfulness and compassion can we awaken from trance and reconnect with our capacity for creativity and full aliveness, wisdom and love.

Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 1 (2017-11-29)

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