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Tara Brach

How can the simple act of asking a sincere question awaken us from the trance of our habitual thinking? In this talk, Tara Brach explores the transformative power of spiritual inquiry—a practice that guides us beyond our stories and into direct, embodied awareness of what is truly happening within us.
 
Through reflection, teachings from Buddhist wisdom traditions, and guided inquiry, Tara invites us to investigate questions like "What is happening inside me right now?" and "What am I believing?" These questions help reveal the beliefs and emotional patterns that keep us stuck and open the doorway to greater freedom, compassion, and presence.
 
You'll also learn how inquiry supports the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture)—a powerful method for meeting fear, self-doubt, and emotional suffering with mindful awareness and kindness. By bringing curiosity to our inner life, we begin to loosen the grip of limiting beliefs and rediscover the spacious awareness that is our true nature.
 
In this talk, Tara explores:
 
• How spiritual inquiry helps awaken us from the "interpreted world" of thoughts
 • Questions that deepen mindfulness and self-awareness
 • Using inquiry within the RAIN meditation practice
 • How investigating beliefs can free us from fear and self-judgment
 • Opening to the mystery and aliveness of present-moment awareness
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2

This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)

Part I - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult "stuck" places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1

This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake awareness, and to inhabiting that boundless receptive awareness that is our home.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)

Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers

We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken through the body, and open the senses. We then rest in the wakeful openness that includes changing experience, aware of the mystery and vividness of being Here.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Meditation: Know That You're Here (19:38 min)

As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and connection. 
 
This talk explores the primitive survival strategies that keep us in trance and the evolutionary currents of awakening that return us to belonging. Through reflection and practice, we are invited to nurture the river of love and justice moving through our world, and to step forward—together—into beloved community.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home. When difficult or intense experience arises, the practice is to learn to open to what is here with a clear, allowing and kind attention (a favorite from the archives).
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)

While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart.
 

 
We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go.
 

 
The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.
 
 
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 2

In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience with tenderness and awareness, the heart naturally softens into ease.
 
This practice begins by awakening presence in the body and senses—feeling the breath, sensations, and sounds as they are. From there, we widen into a spacious, kind awareness that includes the changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and experience. Rather than pushing away or judging what arises, we learn to rest in a welcoming heart.
 
This meditation supports:
 
✨ Mindfulness and embodied presence 
 ✨ Emotional healing through non-judgment
 ✨ Self-compassion and inner peace
 ✨ Nervous system regulation
 ✨ Living with greater openness and love
 
We close with a short verse from poet Dorothy Hunt, "Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment," reminding us that freedom is found right here—in allowing life to be just as it is.
 
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Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
 
Support Tara's Work: If you find value in these talks and wish to support their continuation, please consider making a donation. Your generosity helps us keep these teachings available to all. Visit: https://www.tarabrach.com/donation/

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1

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