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Tara Brach

In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation reconnects by opening all the senses, turning towards the awareness that is here, and resting in the awakened heartspace that includes and tenderly holds our moment to moment experience (a special favorite from the archives).

Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min.)

Drawn from Tara’s book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Through the framework of this practice, we look at how we can reconnect with the gold of our true nature, navigating life’s challenges with mindfulness and love. 
 

 In Part 3, Tara explores:
 
 • How the RAIN practice fosters compassion and connection by dismantling barriers to belonging.
 • The three primary blocks to compassion: self-centered attention, creating a "bad other," and fear of overwhelm.
 • How "stealth metta" and the mantra "We are friends" can soften our habitual biases and awaken kindness.
 • The transformative power of seeing the "goodness behind the mask" in ourselves and others.
 • The practice of Tonglen - breathing in suffering and breathing out care, to transform pain into a source of strength and connection.

Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Part 3

Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability.
 
This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.

Compassion - Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Joy blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.

Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings. In that wholeness of formlessness and form, we discover our natural being - open, awake and tender.

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:56 min.)

Part 4: Equanimity - unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the midst of this living, dying world.
 
 
 
This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
 
 
 
In this talk, Tara explores:
 
 
 
 • A Heart Ready for Anything – Practical reflections and meditations to cultivate equanimity in relationships and daily life.
 • The Wisdom of Equanimity – How balance and spacious awareness free us from reactivity and deepen our capacity for love.
 • Equanimity as the Ground for Compassion – The role of equanimity in keeping love from contracting into attachment and compassion from turning into pity.
 • Navigating Emotional Waves – The metaphor of the ocean and waves to cultivate presence amidst life’s inevitable challenges.
 • The Shadow Side of Equanimity – How indifference can masquerade as equanimity and the importance of staying engaged with life.

Equanimity - Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Many agree that this is the most unpredictable and dangerous time we’ve ever lived through. How do we hold what is unfolding, and respond with courage and clarity? In this talk we reflect on the ways we become spiritual warriors dedicated to freeing ourselves from the inner domination of fear (hatred, delusion) and freeing our world from external forms of tyranny. In this talk, Tara explores:
 
 The roots of tyranny and fear—how unprocessed fear fuels aggression, domination, and the rise of authoritarianism. The power of belonging—why remembering our interconnectedness can empower resistance against oppression. Inner freedom as a path to outer change—how mindfulness and heart-centered practices dismantle fear and awaken courage. The role of the spiritual warrior—cultivating presence, compassion, and truth to stand against inner and outer oppression. Taking action from love, not fear—how small, heartfelt acts contribute to collective healing and justice.

Freedom from Inner and Outer Tyranny: The Path of Spiritual Warriors

When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.

Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19:53 min.)

In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emotional reactivity, and the practices that cultivate equanimity, resilience and a full, openhearted presence. We dedicate to these practices for the sake of our own freedom, and the wellbeing of all beings.

Part 2: A Heart that is Ready for Anything - The Gateway of Equanimity

This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.

Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings and sounds in an intimate, allowing presence.

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29)

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