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Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Tara Brach episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Tara Brach for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Tara Brach episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Tara Brach - Realizing Your Deepest Intention
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01/05/23 • 50 min

Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart.

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Tara Brach - The Sacred Art of Listening
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02/22/19 • 48 min

The Sacred Art of Listening - Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listening, and the healing that unfolds when we truly feel heard by another (a special talk from the archives).

Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks and meditations freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/.

With gratitude and love, Tara

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When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.

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Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the present moment. We are training to become increasingly aware of the gap between thoughts, the space where the light of awareness shines through.

"It’s in that gap between thoughts that the light shines through – this mystery, this living mystery of what’s right here... opening to and relaxing into the life that’s right here." ~ Tara

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Tara Brach - Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress
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12/21/23 • 53 min

Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress - Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other and all life. This reflection examines the primary forces that keep us trapped in a trance of separation. We then explore two powerful dimensions of spiritual practice that can undo trance and reveal the sentience and love that is our shared essence.

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Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment -

When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.

...Exploring what it means to unconditionally say “yes” to the life that’s here... In the moment when that “yes” becomes full, our hearts awaken in love. ~ Tara

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Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 (2020-05-20) - How we tolerate uncertainty - during current times and throughout our lives - has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, aliveness and love. This talk explores the conditioned ways of reacting to insecurity that contract us, and pathways of letting go of resistance, opening to Beginner's mind and discovering a timeless, wise and loving presence in the midst of inevitable change.

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Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting happier (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey) digs into the practical and science-based approaches that increase deep well-being. In this conversation Tara and Arthur discuss the ingredients of happiness, the role of unhappiness in our lives, how to work with core ego-fears, the power of metacognition, the necessity of transcendence of small self and the love that is the grounds of true happiness.

Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

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Tara Brach - Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
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02/29/24 • 63 min

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness.

These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.

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Meditation: Vipassana - Seeing Life As It Is (2020-04-29) - This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear and open presence.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Tara Brach have?

Tara Brach currently has 1441 episodes available.

What topics does Tara Brach cover?

The podcast is about Meditation, Health & Fitness, Audio, Compassion, Buddhist, Psychology, Selfhelp, Buddhism, Mental Health, Dharma, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Spiritual and Mindfulness.

What is the most popular episode on Tara Brach?

The episode title 'Realizing Your Deepest Intention' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Tara Brach?

The average episode length on Tara Brach is 39 minutes.

How often are episodes of Tara Brach released?

Episodes of Tara Brach are typically released every 4 days, 20 hours.

When was the first episode of Tara Brach?

The first episode of Tara Brach was released on Jan 6, 2010.

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