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Donate to Tara Brach Tara Brach's Website 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.

The open space of compassion allows us to realize that our thoughts and emotions are not who we are; they are waves in our ocean. This gives us the freedom to live more wisely and love more fully. For over thirty-five years, I've been exploring the awakening of awareness with yoga, meditation, a clinical psychology practice and relationships in spiritual community (sangha). Since the untying of emotional knots is an essential part of "waking up," it is natural for me to weave these elements into my Buddhist practice and teaching. With formal practice, and a genuine engagement in sangha, we can cultivate the qualities of heart and awareness that allow for deep emotional healing and spiritual freedom. Buddhism guides us in slowing down, quieting and paying attention in an honest and caring way. Through our mindfulness and compassion practices, we establish a sense of intimacy and belonging to our life. We discover that there is no Buddha "out there." Rather, we realize that our true refuge is the wakefulness, openness and love of our own natural awareness. -- Select from Tara Brach's 948 talks -- VIEW ALL 2015-06-26 "Coming Back" - Meditation Instructions with Q and A 2014-12-30 "Landlocked in Fur" - Three Domains of Formless Presence 1998-05-04 "No Self" Realization: Discovering Our True Nature 2016-11-16 "Play a Greater Part" - Bodhisattva for our Times - Part 1 1997-06-17 "Stopping The War" 2014-09-17 (On Climate Change) Earth’s Crisis - On the Edge of the Roof 2016-08-26 (retreat) Your Future Self - Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind 2015-10-10 10-Minute Basic Guided Meditation 2017-08-23 30-Minute Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence 2019-12-18 A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence 2008-09-17 A Committed Presence 2020-06-03 A Courageous Presence with Racism 2012-12-05 A Forgiving Heart - Embracing our Inner Life 2014-11-26 A Generous Heart 2017-11-22 A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart 2010-11-17 A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training 2008-04-02 A Wise Understanding Of Desire 2013-07-17 Absolute Cooperation With the Inevitable 2013-11-20 Accessing Innate Wisdom 2018-04-29 After the RAIN (retreat talk) 2012-03-21 Alchemy of Wise Effort in Spiritual Life 2014-05-07 Am I Dreaming? (retreat talk) 2016-12-28 AM Instruction and Question/Response 2019-06-05 An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart 2020-06-10 Anger and Transformation 2017-10-25 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting 2010-12-08 Ask the Friend for Love 2012-03-28 Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 2018-11-21 Authentic Thanks Giving 2015-10-21 Awakening Beyond Self 2016-10-26 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times 2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 1999-12-08 Awakening Faith 2000-03-13 Awakening From The Dream 1997-02-11 Awakening From The Dream 2000-03-13 Awakening from the Dream 2014-09-24 Awakening from the Landlocked Self 2007-08-08 Awakening From The Story Of Self 2001-10-23 Awakening From The Trance 2017-11-29 Awakening from the Trance of Fear – Part 1 2017-12-06 Awakening from the Trance of Fear – Part 2 2009-12-16 Awakening from the Trance of Separation 2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 2014-06-04 Awakening from Virtual Reality 1997-11-25 Awakening In Daily Life 1997-10-28 Awakening Our Body's Awareness 2018-03-07 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1 2018-03-14 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 2000-02-09 Awakening Though Our Emotional Life 2014-11-19 Awakening Through Change and Loss 2009-04-01 Awakening Through Conflict 2014-04-23 Awakening Through Conflict 2014-06-18 Awakening through Conscious Relationships 1996-12-10 Awakening Through Relationships 1998-12-30 Awakening Through Shame 2010-01-13 Awakening to the Sacred 2012-08-01 Back to the Garden 2010-09-15 Be All That You Are 2002-01-23 Befriending Difficult Emotions 2011-08-31 Befriending Irene 2019-09-04 Befriending Irene 2008-03-12 Befriending The Deities 2008-08-20 Behind The Mask 2009-10-21 Behind the Mask 2013-05-22 Being to Being - Loving Beyond the Trance 2013-06-03 Being to Being- True Refuge in Relationship 2017-02-15 Being Truthful 2019-10-09 Belonging to Each Other – Part 1 2019-10-16 Belonging to Each Other – Part 2 of 3 2019-10-23 Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 1996-05-07 Belonging To Life 1996-01-23 Belonging To The World...Refuge In The Sangha 2015-06-17 Beloved Community 2010-04-07 Beyond Small Self 2019-04-03 Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 1 2019-04-10 Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 2 2013-02-20 Beyond the Interpreted World 2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 2000-03-08 Blessing Our Inner Life 2010-08-11 Blessings of a Forgiving Heart 2014-07-02 Blessings of Soul Recognition 1996-05-21 Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart I 1996-05-28 Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart II 2016-03-02 Bodhichitta — The Awakened Heart - Part 2 2016-02-24 Bodhichitta: The Awakened Heart - Part 1 2000-03-24 Bodhisattva's Aspiration 2000-05-03 Bowing To The Sacred Within 2017-07-05 Brief Meditation: Entering the Wilderness 2014-08-20 Bringing Awareness to Doing 2011-09-28 Causing No Harm 2009-05-27 Celebrating Vesak: Oh Nobly Born 2009-11-11 Choosing Presence 2012-11-02 Closing - Question/Response - all teachers 2012-06-13 Committing to Joy 2015-11-04 Compass of Our Heart 2011-06-29 Compass of the Heart 1995-03-06 Compassion 2010-08-25 Compassion - Responding to Suffering with Care 2019-05-15 Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet 2018-02-14 Compassion – Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 2008-07-02 Conscious Activity 2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 2012-06-06 Cultivating Compassion 1997-05-13 Cultivating Equanimity 2012-06-20 Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation) 1996-09-20 Cultivating Metta 2017-01-25 Darkness of the Womb - Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering 2010-02-03 Deepening Practice 2020-03-04 Desire and Addiction (Part 1 of 3): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 2020-03-11 Desire and Addiction (Part 2 of 3): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 2000-03-18 Desire and Awakening 2000-03-19 Desire and Awakening of Our Hearts 2001-06-06 Desire And Awakening Spirit 2010-05-19 Desire and Spiritual Freedom 2015-12-09 Desire: A Current of Homecoming 1997-12-09 Devotion 1999-04-13 Devotion And The Path Of Awakening I 1999-04-27 Devotion And The Path Of Awakening II 1995-02-02 Difficult Forces In Spiritual Life - part 1 1995-03-31 Difficult Forces In Spiritual Life - part 2 2018-05-03 Disarming our Hearts: Letting go of Blame 2018-08-15 Discovering the Power of Prayer 2017-01-11 Dissolving Trance with RAIN 1998-02-03 Divine Abodes Series 1998-02-10 Divine Abodes Series 1998-02-17 Divine Abodes Series #3 2011-11-02 Divine Abodes: Equanimity 2009-06-10 Don't Know Mind 2009-04-08 Downwind from Flowers 2019-08-28 Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof 2018-05-09 Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us 2016-03-23 Embodied Awareness – Embracing Unlived Life – Part 2 2016-03-30 Embodied Awareness – Pain and Living Fully – Part 3 2016-03-09 Embodied Awareness- Embracing Unlived Life - Part 1 2012-02-29 Embodied Presence 2020-01-22 Embodied Presence (Part 1) - Planting our Roots in the Universe 2020-02-05 Embodied Presence (Part 2) - Planting our Roots in the Universe 2019-03-13 Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 1 2019-03-20 Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 2010-04-28 Embodied Spirit 2014-12-24 Embodying Loving Presence (retreat talk) 2013-02-06 Embodying True Refuge - Serving and Savoring Life 1995-02-01 Embracing The Shadow 2009-09-16 Embracing the Unlived Life 2020-05-20 Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 2009-08-19 Enchantment and Freedom 2013-01-19 Encountering the Shadow Deities 2013-04-17 Entering the Mystery 2005-03-01 Entrusting Ourselves To The Waves 2010-09-08 Equanimity 2008-10-15 Equanimity In The Face Of Conflict 2019-04-24 Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (Duck Meditation) 2014-07-23 Evening of Inquiry 2018-06-27 Evolving Beyond “Unreal Othering” 2011-01-12 Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities 1997-10-11 Facing Difficulties With An Open Heart 2020-02-12 Facing Fear (Part 1) - Awakening Your Fearless Heart 2020-02-26 Facing Fear (Part 2) - Awakening Your Fearless Heart 1999-07-06 Facing Our Fears: Living With A Courageous Heart 2020-03-18 Facing Pandemic Fears with an Awake Heart 2005-03-07 Fear & Fearlessness 2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 2015-11-25 Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love - Thanksgiving 2015 1994-05-08 Feminine Principle In Buddhism - part I 1994-05-09 Feminine Principle In Buddhism - part II 2011-09-07 Finding the Juice Inside of Fear 2013-01-02 Finding True Refuge 2019-01-09 Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering 2011-07-06 Flow and Presence 2012-03-14 Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing 2015-05-04 Forgiveness 1999-10-13 Forgiveness - Freeing Our Heart To Love Fully - part 1 2019-04-17 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 1 2019-05-01 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 2019-05-29 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 3 2012-12-12 Forgiving Our Way to Freedom 2014-06-11 Freedom and Happiness in Daily Life 1998-09-15 Freedom From Addiction 2015-03-18 Freedom from Fear-Based Beliefs 2018-01-17 Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us – Part 1 2012-03-07 Freedom in the Midst of Difficulty 1996-02-06 Freedom To Love 2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 2015-02-25 From Dragons to Schmoos - Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence 2013-09-04 From Egoic to Unconditioned Loving 2018-04-04 From Head to Heart 2018-05-30 From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 1 2018-07-11 From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 2 2018-12-30 From Judgment to Self-Compassion 1999-09-14 Fully Alive- Awakening Through Embodiment 2016-01-06 Gateways of Remembrance: The Three Refuges 2008-02-06 Gateways To Happiness 2009-08-26 Genuine Acceptance 1996-11-26 Giving And Receiving 2008-05-14 Golfing With Monkeys 2012-11-21 Gratitude & Generosity: Markings of Inner Freedom 2007-11-21 Gratitude And Generosity 2009-11-25 Gratitude and Generosity 2019-11-27 Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationships 2013-10-20 Guided Forgiveness Practice 2011-12-30 Guided Heart - Forgiveness and Compassion 2013-04-27 Guided Heart Meditation - Forgiveness 2019-11-02 Guided Heart Meditation - Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives (includes a … 2014-12-31 Guided Heart Meditation with Instruction: Forgiving Ourselves and Others 2014-10-27 Guided Heart Meditation: Forgiveness 2012-10-29 Guided Heart Meditation: Forgiveness Practice 2020-03-11 Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives 2019-12-30 Guided Heart Meditation: Releasing Blame 2013-10-24 Guided Heart Meditation: Taking Refuge in the Beloved 2011-12-31 Guided Meditation - Awakening Compassion / Tonglen 2020-03-18 Guided Meditation for Times of Pandemic: “Calling on Your Awakened Heart” 2012-10-29 Guided Meditation: A Forgiving Heart 2012-12-31 Guided Meditation: Awakening Compassion - Tonglen 2013-10-22 Guided Meditation: Compassion Practice - Tonglen 2020-08-05 Guided Meditation: Openhearted Presence 2012-12-30 Guided Meditation: The Freedom of a Forgiving Heart 2012-11-14 Hands Off the Controls 2009-08-12 Happiness 2017-05-31 Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 1 2017-06-07 Happiness Is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 2017-03-29 Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts 2018-08-01 Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1 2018-08-08 Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 2 2011-03-02 Healing into Life and Death 2013-10-30 Healing Self-Doubt 2017-03-08 Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places 2016-12-31 Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 2015-09-05 Heart Meditation: Letting go of Judgment 2015-10-12 Heart Meditation: Loving Presence 2016-11-05 Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness 2015-12-29 Heart Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion 2015-06-27 Heart Meditation: Three Domains of Forgiveness 2014-02-08 Heart Presence (retreat talk) 2014-05-21 Heart Training on the Bodhisatva Path 2013-04-10 Heavenly Messengers 2008-04-26 Homecoming To The Awakened Heart 2019-06-26 How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 2016-08-17 How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 2019-07-03 How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 2016-08-10 How Hope can Heal and Free Us – Part I 2009-01-14 Humble Of Heart 2014-05-28 Humility 2011-03-16 Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality 2015-01-28 Inhabiting Our Bodies with Presence 2017-05-01 Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart 2017-05-04 Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion 2017-05-02 Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat 2012-12-28 Instruction/Question/Response 2012-12-28 Instruction: Walking Practice 2009-11-04 Intimacy with Life 2012-05-30 Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love 2014-12-10 Intimacy with Life: Part 1 2014-12-17 Intimacy with Life: Part 2 2012-08-29 Intimacy with Our Inner Life 2013-07-26 Introducción a la Meditación Parte 1: El Arte y Ciencia de la Meditación (tran… 2019-12-29 Introductory Meditation Instructions 2015-04-29 Investigating Reality - Beyond an Interpreted World 2011-01-19 Inviting Life's Difficulties to Tea 2008-10-01 Inviting Mara To Tea 1999-01-12 Journey Into Sacred Presence 2010-09-01 Joy 2018-02-21 Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 2019-11-03 Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) 2003-07-09 Learning To Listen Deeply 2011-08-03 Learning to Respond, Not React 2015-09-02 Learning to Respond, Not React 2020-08-12 Learning to Respond, Not React 2008-08-13 Let Everything Happen To You 2009-08-05 Let Everything Happen to You 1996-09-17 Let Go Into The Mystery 2013-04-24 Letting Go Into Living and Dying 2015-09-05 Letting Go of Judgment (retreat talk) 2016-08-31 Letting Go – The Freedom of Awake Awareness 1997-09-23 Liberation Through Non-Clinging 2008-02-20 Listening Presence 2008-08-27 Listening To Our Life 2015-01-21 Listening to the Calling of Our Hearts 2014-01-22 Listening to the Song 2019-11-13 Listening to the Song - Part 1 2017-03-01 Listening to the Song - Part 2 2019-11-20 Listening to the Song - Part 2 2017-02-22 Listening to the Song – Part I 2012-07-25 Listening with an Awake Heart 2016-04-27 Listening with an Awake Heart 2018-04-11 Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 1 2018-04-18 Listening with an Awake Heart – Part 2 2010-02-24 Living Aligned with the Heart 1998-10-12 Living Wholeheartedly 2019-02-06 Living with Courageous Presence 2009-12-09 Longing to Belong 2016-12-28 Love - and Death 1999-10-03 Love And Fear 2020-07-22 Love and Fear During Times of War: An Interview with Lama Rod Owens 2019-01-23 Love for Imperfect Things – featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Br… 2017-07-19 Love is Always Here 2016-04-20 Love is Always Loving You 1997-07-08 Lover Archetype In Spiritual Life - part I 1997-07-15 Lover Archetype In Spiritual Life - part II 2014-04-09 Loving and Losing 2018-10-06 Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing our Heart (Short talk and Guided med… 2013-10-02 Loving Life, Loving Earth 2010-11-24 Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity 2013-04-28 Loving Ourselves 2010-09-29 Loving the Earth 2012-10-27 Loving the Life Within Us 2014-08-27 Loving Truth - The Power of Investigation 2015-04-20 Loving Yourself into Freedom 2007-11-14 Lovingkindness - Living With A Wise Heart 2018-02-07 Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 2002-09-04 Making Peace With Pain 2017-03-01 Meditation - A Sky-Like Mind 2014-10-29 Meditation - Compassion Practice - Tonglen 2019-05-04 Meditation - First Morning 2012-05-02 Meditation - Inner Space: Gateway to Awareness 2015-04-22 Meditation - Letting Life Be, Just As It Is 2017-03-22 Meditation - Relaxing Back into Full Presence 2019-11-13 Meditation - The Silence that is Listening 2016-04-13 Meditation - Vipassana - Practice of Seeing Clearly 2015-04-20 Meditation - Vipassana with Instruction 2010-03-31 Meditation and Healing Trauma 2019-05-09 Meditation and Morning Instruction - Day 6 2017-12-29 Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting 2010-05-02 Meditation with Instruction 2017-07-26 Meditation – Relaxing into Sleep (no bell at end) 2018-05-16 Meditation – Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life 2018-05-01 Meditation – Spring Morning on Retreat 1996-04-30 Meditation-It's Not What You Think 2020-04-08 Meditation: A Calm Refuge 2016-12-30 Meditation: A Liberating Awareness - Embodying Full Presence 2020-02-05 Meditation: A Listening Presence 2018-04-11 Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness 2020-08-19 Meditation: A Present Heart 2020-07-29 Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence 2017-12-06 Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness 2018-05-30 Meditation: Aliveness and Presence 2017-06-21 Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence 2018-12-19 Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence 2017-02-08 Meditation: At Home in the Moment 2018-08-22 Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness 2019-10-23 Meditation: Awake and Alive 2014-12-27 Meditation: Awakening Loving Awareness (with instructions) 2018-08-29 Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body 2019-04-24 Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body 2019-06-26 Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness 2018-12-26 Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings 2017-04-05 Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body 2018-12-12 Meditation: Aware and Alive 2018-04-04 Meditation: Awareness and Flow 2018-02-14 Meditation: Awareness is Our Home 2018-11-28 Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space 2017-12-28 Meditation: Basic Body Scan 2016-05-07 Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness 2019-07-10 Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life 2019-05-01 Meditation: Being Here 2019-11-27 Meditation: Being Here 2019-03-20 Meditation: Being Here (with community OM’s) 2018-12-31 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves 2018-01-31 Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking 2018-07-04 Meditation: Blessings of Love 2020-06-24 Meditation: Body and Spirit 2017-12-13 Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness 2017-11-29 Meditation: Breath by Breath 2018-07-18 Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease 2019-06-05 Meditation: Breath by Breath – Relaxing with Our Life 2020-07-01 Meditation: Calling on Our Inner Bodhisattva 2019-11-20 Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence 2018-10-03 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 2020-01-15 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 2018-03-28 Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness 2018-04-25 Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence 2019-12-04 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention 2019-08-07 Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention 2020-08-12 Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence 2019-08-28 Meditation: Discovering Inner Space 2019-06-12 Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence 2020-06-17 Meditation: Embodied Metta 2019-03-13 Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” 2019-08-14 Meditation: Everything Belongs 2017-08-16 Meditation: Filling our Body with Love 2015-04-19 Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (with instructions) 2020-07-22 Meditation: Gateway to Natural Presence 2017-03-08 Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here 2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 2016-05-09 Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness 2017-06-07 Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness 2017-06-14 Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath 2020-06-03 Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence 2018-03-07 Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath 2018-03-14 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 2020-06-10 Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm 2018-05-09 Meditation: Intimacy with Life 2017-04-29 Meditation: Know That You're Here 2019-07-24 Meditation: Letting Go 2019-04-03 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 2018-08-08 Meditation: Letting Go of Doing 2019-01-09 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be 2019-04-10 Meditation: Letting Life Be 2020-02-19 Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You 2017-03-15 Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go 2018-05-23 Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body 2017-08-09 Meditation: Listening to Life 2019-02-20 Meditation: Listening to Life 2020-07-15 Meditation: Listening to Life 2019-01-23 Meditation: Living Loving Awareness 2018-02-07 Meditation: Living Presence 2017-07-26 Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile 2020-05-13 Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence 2017-03-29 Meditation: Loving Presence – (with a smile body scan) 2020-06-10 Meditation: Meeting Anger with Awareness 2020-04-01 Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath 2020-09-09 Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart 2018-04-18 Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky 2016-05-09 Meditation: Mystery of Aliveness 2018-07-11 Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness 2017-08-02 Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:22 min) 2020-02-12 Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence 2020-05-06 Meditation: Openhearted Presence 2017-06-28 Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness 2019-05-29 Meditation: Opening to Life 2017-05-24 Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness 2018-06-27 Meditation: Opening to the Waves 2020-01-22 Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence 2018-08-15 Meditation: Presence and Breath 2017-10-11 Meditation: Present Heart 2017-08-30 Meditation: Present Heartspace 2015-10-15 Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart 2019-05-22 Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame 2019-07-03 Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness 2018-01-17 Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness 2018-08-01 Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence 2017-10-25 Meditation: Refuge in Presence 2020-04-15 Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence 2017-11-22 Meditation: Relax Into Happiness 2019-10-09 Meditation: Relaxed and Alert 2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 2017-11-08 Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness 2019-01-16 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness 2020-09-02 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness 2019-02-13 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence 2020-04-22 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness 2018-10-17 Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery 2019-10-02 Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness 2017-07-12 Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence 2019-03-06 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 2020-02-26 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 2019-05-07 Meditation: Releasing the Armor of Blame 2019-02-27 Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence 2018-10-24 Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness 2020-08-26 Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness 2018-01-24 Meditation: Resting in Reality 2019-05-05 Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 2 2017-10-04 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life 2018-07-25 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life 2019-03-27 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality 2019-04-17 Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence 2017-02-15 Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain 2018-01-10 Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness 2016-05-11 Meditation: Space of Awareness 2019-12-04 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence 2020-05-20 Meditation: The Art of Letting Go 2019-09-04 Meditation: The Blessings of Love 2020-03-04 Meditation: The Blessings of Yes 2017-05-24 Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence 2017-04-26 Meditation: The Center of Now 2018-02-21 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome 2014-12-30 Meditation: The Luminous Space of Awareness 2019-02-06 Meditation: The Practice of RAIN 2018-11-14 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 2019-08-21 Meditation: The Sea of Awareness 2018-05-03 Meditation: The Silence That’s Listening 2018-02-28 Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence 2020-07-08 Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness 2020-03-25 Meditation: Touching Peace 2019-10-16 Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence 2020-04-29 Meditation: Vipassana - Seeing Life As It Is 2019-06-19 Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness 2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 2018-11-21 Meditation: Yes to Life 2017-12-20 Meditation: “Yes” to Life 2008-04-09 Meeting Fear With A Wise Heart - part 1 2008-04-16 Meeting Fear With A Wise Heart - part 2 2010-08-18 Metta - Lovingkindness 1995-01-01 Mindful Movement - Guided Exercises 2011-11-16 Mindful Speech 1998-05-02 Mindfulness As A Path Of Healing 2014-02-12 Mindfulness in Education: Enabling Children to Realize their Full Potential 2013-01-18 Mindfulness Meditation 2010-12-31 Minting Gold - Embodying the Awakened Heart 2011-12-29 Morning Guided Meditation 2013-04-27 Morning Guided Meditation 2014-02-07 Morning Instruction - Question/Response 2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Meditation 2011-12-29 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 2012-12-28 Morning Instruction in Meditation 2016-11-07 Morning Instruction with Question and Response 2013-04-27 Morning Instructions 2013-12-30 Morning Instructions - Question and Response 2013-12-28 Morning Instructions - Question/Response 2013-12-28 Morning Instructions and Meditation 2013-12-30 Morning Meditation 2016-12-28 Morning Meditation - Awareness and Aliveness 2012-12-30 Morning Meditation and Instruction 2014-02-07 Morning Meditation and Instruction 2014-10-26 Morning Meditation and Instruction 2016-12-30 Morning Meditation Instructions with Question/Response 2015-04-20 Morning Q and Response - Working with Trauma 2016-05-11 Morning Question and Response 2012-10-28 Morning Question/Response 2008-05-28 My Religion Is Kindness 2017-12-13 My Religion is Kindness – Part 1 2017-12-20 My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 2015-04-23 Namaste - Seeing the Sacred that Lives through all Beings 2018-03-28 Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are 2005-03-14 Nature Of Awareness 2019-02-27 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 2019-03-06 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 2019-12-27 New Year Retreat | Opening Dharma Talks 2018-01-03 New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 2011-12-21 No Mud, No Lotus 2014-07-09 Nourishing a Liberating Intention 2019-05-03 Opening Retreat Talks - 2008-03-19 Our Heart's Aspiration 1998-03-10 Our True Refuge 2013-09-18 Part 1 - Entering the Wilderness 2009-01-28 Part 1 - Freedom In The Midst Of Fear 2012-06-27 Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who Is Looking Through the Mask 2009-04-15 Part 1 - Intention and Spiritual Freedom 2019-12-04 Part 1 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World Into Healing 2010-10-13 Part 1 - The Art and Science of Meditation - Introductory Series 2009-03-18 Part 1 - The Body as a Gateway to Full Presence 2012-05-09 Part 1 - The Lion's Roar 2009-06-17 Part 1 - Wise Practice 2018-11-28 Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 2019-08-07 Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” 2018-10-24 Part 1 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion 2012-08-15 Part 1: 1000 Serious Moves 2015-11-11 Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom 2015-02-11 Part 1: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice 2014-07-30 Part 1: Basic Trust 2015-06-03 Part 1: Beyond the Fear Body 2015-06-24 Part 1: Devotional Practices 2011-09-14 Part 1: Do You Make Regular Visits to Yourself? 2012-09-19 Part 1: Embodied Spirit 2013-12-11 Part 1: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love 2013-10-09 Part 1: Happiness 2014-10-15 Part 1: Happiness 2013-06-26 Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path 2015-05-13 Part 1: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity 2011-04-13 Part 1: Realizing True Well-being 2017-06-28 Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence 2013-08-21 Part 1: Relating to the Fearsome Deities 2018-10-03 Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom 2011-05-25 Part 1: Stress and Meditation 2011-03-23 Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion 2011-07-20 Part 1: The Mystery of Who We Are 2013-03-13 Part 1: Three Blessings of Awakening Consciousness 2012-01-25 Part 1: Three Blessings on the Journey 2012-01-11 Part 1: Trusting Your Basic Goodness 2014-10-01 Part 1: Unconditional Love 2014-02-05 Part 1: Universal Faces of Love 2013-11-06 Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 2018-08-22 Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 2012-10-03 Part 1: Wise Intention: the Compass of our Hearts 2014-04-30 Part 2 - Conflict - From Fight Flight Freeze to Attend Befriend 2013-09-25 Part 2 - Entering the Wilderness 2012-07-04 Part 2 - Freedom: Taking the Backward Step 2009-04-22 Part 2 - Intention and Spiritual Freedom 2010-10-20 Part 2 - Mindfulness of Emotions - Introductory Series 2019-12-11 Part 2 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing 2011-04-20 Part 2 - Realizing True Well-being 2009-03-25 Part 2 - The Body as a Gateway to Full Presence 2012-05-16 Part 2 - The Lion's Roar 2009-02-04 Part 2 - True Refuge In The Face Of Fear 2009-06-24 Part 2 - Wise Practice 2018-01-24 Part 2 of 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us 2018-12-12 Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 2019-08-14 Part 2 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” 2018-11-07 Part 2 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion 2012-08-22 Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves 2015-11-18 Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom 2015-02-18 Part 2: Basic Elements of Meditation Practice 2015-06-10 Part 2: Beyond the Fear Body 2015-07-01 Part 2: Devotional Practices 2011-09-21 Part 2: Do You Make Regular Visits to Yourself? 2012-09-26 Part 2: Embodied Spirit 2013-12-18 Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love 2013-10-16 Part 2: Happiness 2014-10-22 Part 2: Happiness 2014-02-19 Part 2: Heart of Compassion 2013-07-03 Part 2: Hope and the Spiritual Path 2015-05-20 Part 2: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity 2017-07-05 Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence 2013-08-28 Part 2: Relating to the Fearsome Deities 2018-10-17 Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom 2011-06-01 Part 2: Stress and Meditation 2011-03-30 Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion 2011-07-27 Part 2: The Mystery of Who We Are 2013-03-27 Part 2: Three Blessings - Inner Fire 2012-02-01 Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey 2012-01-18 Part 2: Trusting Your Basic Goodness 2014-08-06 Part 2: Trusting Your Basic Goodness 2014-10-08 Part 2: Unconditional Love 2013-11-13 Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 2018-08-29 Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 2012-10-10 Part 2: Wise Intention: Living in Truth 2010-10-27 Part 3 - Mindfulness of Thoughts - Introductory Series 2019-12-18 Part 3 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing 2009-07-01 Part 3 - Wise Practice - The Heart of Buddhism 2018-01-31 Part 3 of 3 – Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us 2014-02-26 Part 3: A Forgiving Heart 2013-04-03 Part 3: Three Gifts - Looking in the Mirror 2010-11-03 Part 4 - Living from Presence - Introductory Series 2009-07-08 Part 4 - Wise Practice - Taking Refuge in Awareness 2014-03-05 Part 4: Opening to Joy 2014-03-12 Part 5: Equanimity - A Heart That is Ready for Anything 2001-10-25 Path Of A Bodhisattva - The Power Of Caring 1998-01-13 Path Of Acceptance 2007-10-03 Path Of Peace 2006-04-08 Path Of The Bodhisattva 2007-12-12 Path Of Transformation 2014-01-08 Path of True Refuge 2011-11-23 Pathways to a Grateful Heart 2005-01-20 Pathways To Belonging - The Three Refuges 2013-09-11 Peace Work 2014-03-26 Planting Ourselves in the Universe 2008-06-18 Planting Yourself In The Universe 2017-11-08 Power of Prayer: From Longing to Belonging 2012-11-07 Practical Dharma for Stressful Times 2013-05-29 Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out Of Your Own Way" 2000-01-19 Practicing Radical Acceptance 2010-01-20 Presence and Aliveness I & II 2010-01-27 Presence and Aliveness I & II 2011-06-22 Presence and Empowerment 2009-10-14 Question and Response 2014-05-14 Question and Response 2016-05-09 Question and Response from Retreat 2012-10-17 Question and Response with Tara 2008-06-11 Question/Answer: Working With The Difficult Weather 2015-04-18 Question/Response - Working with Pain and with Recurring Thoughts 2012-02-08 Questions, Guided Meditation and Group Sharing - Led by Tara 2002-05-21 Radical Acceptance 2015-08-12 Radical Acceptance Revisited 2017-04-30 Radical Compassion – Part 1 2017-05-17 Radical Compassion – Part 2 2020-08-05 Radical Love: Part 1 - Reflections that Awaken our Heart 2020-08-19 Radical Love: Part 2 – Loving Ourselves into Healing 2014-11-05 Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real 2017-07-12 Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real 2014-04-16 RAIN - Cultivating a Mindful Awareness 2016-05-04 RAIN of Forgiveness 2019-10-16 RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation 2012-08-08 Real But Not True 2016-06-01 Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs 2007-06-13 Realizing Our Basic Goodness 2007-05-30 Realizing Our Basic Goodness 2002-03-13 Realizing our Basic Goodness Part 1 2002-03-20 Realizing Our Basic Goodness Pt 3 2008-04-23 Realizing Our Natural Joy: I 2008-04-30 Realizing Our Natural Joy: II 2006-04-06 Realizing Our True Nature 2013-12-29 Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart 2011-04-06 Realizing Truth--The Power of Wise Inquiry 2017-03-15 Realizing Your Deepest Desires 2019-01-16 Realizing Your Deepest Intention 2010-03-17 Realizing Your True Nature - Four Reflections 2016-06-22 Reconnecting with our Lives - Healing from Dissociation 2017-08-30 Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart 2017-02-08 Reflection: Heart Wisdom of your Future Self 2009-11-18 Refuge in Loving Presence 2015-01-14 Refuge in Loving Relationships 2017-01-04 Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness 2020-01-01 Reintegration | Closing Dharma Talks, Q&A 1996-06-11 Relating To Trauma: Personal Healing And Spiritual Transformation 2010-05-12 Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind" 2011-08-10 Relating Wisely to Desire 2000-02-16 Relating Wisely To Thoughts 2010-05-26 Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 1 2010-06-02 Relating Wisely with Fear - Part 2 2002-02-27 Relationships As A Path Of Spiritual Awakening 2000-03-28 Relationships As Path 2008-12-10 Relaxed Attentiveness 2017-05-03 Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part 2 2017-04-26 Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part I 2010-11-10 Releasing Karmic Patterns 2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 2016-04-13 Releasing Self-Blame - Pathways to a Forgiving Heart 2013-05-15 Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Love 2017-12-28 Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) 2013-05-08 Remembering Being 2011-05-01 Remembering Love 2013-01-30 Remembering What Matters 1997-09-30 Remembering Who We Are 2014-10-30 Removing the Barriers to Love (Retreat Talk) 2018-04-25 Responding to Change with a Wise Heart 2016-08-27 Retreat - Morning Instruction and Guided Meditation 2016-08-27 Retreat Instruction on RAIN with Question-Response 2014-03-19 Return of the Prodigal Son 2014-05-04 Return of the Prodigal Son (retreat talk) 2002-07-31 Reverence For Life: The Essence Of Engaged Buddhism 2017-10-04 River of Change – Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life – Part 1 2017-10-11 River of Change – Part 2 – Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life 2003-06-18 Sacred Presence: Awakening From The Dream 2012-04-28 SatPM-Instructions-and-Metta-Meditation 2018-07-25 Saying “Yes” – Meeting Your Edge and Softening 2015-12-23 Secret Beauty - Solstice Talk 2018-05-16 Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 1 2018-05-23 Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 2 2010-12-15 Seeing Beyond the Veil 2016-10-05 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Pa… 2016-10-12 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Pa… 2016-10-19 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Pa… 2009-10-26 Self Compassion 2020-01-25 Self Compassion 2013-03-20 Self Compassion (retreat talk) 2010-05-02 Self-Compassion 2009-10-26 Self-Compassion 2010-08-04 Self-Forgiveness 2020-07-01 Shame, Healing and Transformation 2020-03-25 Sheltering In Love (Part 1) 2020-04-01 Sheltering In Love (Part 2) 2020-04-15 Sheltering in Love (Part 4) 2020-04-22 Sheltering in Love (Part 5): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 1) 2020-04-29 Sheltering In Love (Part 6): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (Part 2) 2020-04-08 Sheltering in Love - Part 3 2020-05-06 Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame 2020-05-13 Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure 2020-01-15 Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Itention 2018-04-30 Short Talk & Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts 2019-11-07 Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Releasing Blame 2009-10-07 Skeleton Woman 2018-07-04 Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World 2007-08-15 Soul Of The Whole 2011-06-15 Soul Recognition-- Seeing Past the Mask 2017-04-05 Soul Recognition: The Practice of Namaste 2008-09-24 Soul Retrieval 2016-09-28 Spiritual Empowerment 2020-06-24 Spiritual Hope 2019-10-02 Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart 2016-12-07 Spiritual Reparenting 2019-02-13 Spiritual Reparenting 2015-04-18 Standing and Walking Meditation Instructions 2019-11-02 Start of First Morning Meditation - 10 min. 2013-01-16 Stepping Out of the Cave 2011-05-18 Stepping Out of Time 2017-06-14 Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 1 2017-06-21 Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2 2016-06-29 Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 1 2016-07-06 Stress and Everyday Nirvana – Part 2 2014-04-02 Stress and Our Evolving Consciousness 2007-10-31 Stress, Wakeful Relaxation And Freedom 2012-04-29 SunAM Guided Meditation 2012-04-29 SunAM Q and A 2015-03-04 Sure Heart's Release 2018-11-14 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 2020-06-17 Sustaining Our Caring 2010-01-06 Taking Refuge 2012-01-04 Taking Refuge 2015-01-07 Taking Refuge in Your Own True Nature 2017-03-22 Taking the “Exquisite Risk”: An Undefended Heart 2009-05-13 Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield: An Evening of Questions and Responses 1999-11-24 Thanksgiving - Experiencing The Abundance Of Our Spirit 2008-11-26 Thanksgiving 2008 - Living The Life Fully - Gratitude And Generosity 2015-07-22 That Bird Got My Wings 2011-06-08 The Art of Listening--Nourishing Loving Relationships 2007-08-01 The Art Of Loving 1999-11-03 The Art Of Meditation Practice 2008-02-27 The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 2008-03-05 The Art Of Practice: Rain 2009-06-03 The Attitude that Perpetuates Suffering 2010-10-06 The Awakened Heart 2011-12-07 The Backward Step 2013-01-09 The Barriers to Loving Presence 2000-04-29 The Blessing Of Awareness 2010-03-24 The Blessings of Deep Listening 2011-04-27 The Blessings of Embodied Awareness 2011-12-29 The Blessings of Embodied Presence 2008-06-25 The Blessings Of Soul Recognition 1997-02-25 The Bodhisattva Ideal 2005-04-25 The Bodhisattva Path 2011-05-11 The Buddha's Awakening: A Myth for Us All! 2009-01-21 The Courage To Awaken 2019-06-12 The Courage to Love – Part 1 2019-06-19 The Courage to Love – Part 2 2011-12-14 The Dance of Relational Trance 2015-07-08 The Dance with Pain 2009-02-18 The Divine Abodes: Compassion 2011-10-19 The Divine Abodes: Compassion 2009-03-04 The Divine Abodes: Equanimity 2009-02-25 The Divine Abodes: Joy 2011-10-26 The Divine Abodes: Joy 2009-02-11 The Divine Abodes: Lovingkindness 2011-10-05 The Divine Abodes: Lovingkindness 1998-07-14 The Eight-Fold Path 2013-11-27 The Evolving of Generosity 2010-06-16 The Fires of Loss 2013-02-27 The Fires of Loss 2000-06-22 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 1 2000-06-29 The Five Spiritual Faculties - part 2 1998-07-07 The Four Noble Truths 2019-03-27 The Four Remembrances 2012-09-12 The Freedom of Yes 2007-09-26 The Gift Of Silence 2012-12-29 The God Whom I Love is Inside 1998-08-04 The Great Perfection 1998-08-04 The Great Perfection: Emptiness Suffused With Compassion 1999-10-05 The Great Perfection: The Taste Of Freedom 2009-09-02 The Grounds of Living Compassion 2020-07-08 The Heart Crosses the Abyss - Three Inner Trainings 1996-11-12 The Heart Of Perfect Wisdom 2013-10-19 The Heartspace That is Our True Home (retreat talk) 1996-12-31 The Jewel In The Lotus: Cultivating The Awakened Heart 1999-08-03 The Jewel Net Of Indra 2007-09-19 The Joy Of Conscious Relationships 1998-11-17 The Longing To Awaken - II 1998-11-10 The Longing To Awaken I 1999-05-03 The Longing To Belong 1996-09-10 The Opening And Closing Of Our Hearts 2003-10-16 The Path Of Compassion 2019-07-10 The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 2019-07-24 The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 2010-12-29 The Path of Transformation 2014-10-26 The Portal of Fear (Retreat Talk) 2019-12-28 The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) 2008-01-30 The Power Of Inquiry 2016-02-10 The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1 2016-02-17 The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2 2002-01-09 The Power Of Intention 2010-07-07 The Power of Mind 2010-09-22 The Power of Mindful Investigation 1999-07-20 The Power Of Prayer 2015-12-16 The RAIN of Self-Compassion 2017-05-24 The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World 2015-07-29 The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachment and Addiction 2016-12-14 The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1 2016-12-21 The Revolution of Tenderness – Part 2 2014-11-12 The Sacred Art of Listening 2015-08-05 The Sacred Art of Listening 2019-02-20 The Sacred Art of Listening 2020-07-15 The Sacred Art of Listening 2015-09-30 The Sacred Pause 2011-11-09 The Space of Presence 1997-06-24 The Spiritual Warrior 2011-02-09 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 2011-02-16 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 2 2008-11-05 The Three Characteristics - part 1: Unsatisfactoriness 2008-11-12 The Three Characteristics - part 2: Impermanence 2008-11-19 The Three Characteristics - part 3: No-Self 2009-01-07 The Three Refuges 2007-10-17 The Three Refuges 2007-10-10 The Three Refuges 2008-01-02 The Three Refuges 2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 2007-12-19 The True Revolution 2015-05-27 The Two Wings of Awareness 2008-03-26 The Two Wolves 2008-12-17 The Undefended Heart 2010-06-09 The Unreal Other 1999-11-17 The Way Of Love: Embracing Life & Death 2013-02-13 The Wings of a Liberating Presence 2016-11-06 The Wings of Awakening - Self-Honesty and Love 2012-04-25 The World in Our Heart 1998-05-19 There's No Place Like Home 2008-07-09 Three Attitudes That Awaken And Free Our Spirit 2016-02-03 Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice 2018-12-05 Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice 2017-08-02 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire 2017-08-09 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror 2017-07-26 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part I: Forgiveness 2018-12-19 Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully 2018-01-03 Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom 2013-07-24 Three Gestures of Love 2009-05-20 Three Gifts That Serve Freedom 2015-04-08 Three Liberating Gifts - Part 3 - Looking in the Mirror 2015-03-25 Three Liberating Gifts: Part 1 - Forgiveness 2015-04-01 Three Liberating Gifts: Part 2 - Inner Fire 2012-05-03 ThuAM-Guided-Meditation-Backward-Step 2012-05-02 ThuAM-Instructions-Question/Response 2011-10-13 Thursday AM - Question and Response on Retreat 2008-01-09 Touching Enlightenment With Our Body 2007-08-22 Touching Enlightenment With The Body 1996-02-20 Touching Peace 2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 1998-10-27 Training Precepts On The Buddhist Path 2012-09-05 Trance of the Unreal Other 2001-06-13 Transforming Fear 2015-08-19 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 2018-12-26 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 2020-09-02 Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety 2013-08-07 True Belonging 2010-04-21 True Belonging - Refuge in Presence and Relatedness 2015-04-15 True Happiness - Realizing Well Being 2011-01-05 True Refuge: Three Gateways to Freedom 2017-08-16 True Resilience – Part 1: Awakening through All Circumstances 2017-08-30 True Resilience – Part 2: Awakening through All Circumstances 2017-02-08 Trusting Our Awakening Heart 1995-12-30 Trusting Our Buddha Nature 1997-04-29 Trusting Our Lives: Resting Fully In The Present 2011-03-09 Trusting Our Secret Beauty 2015-10-07 Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 2016-11-10 Trusting the Gold 2019-05-08 Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) 2010-07-28 Trusting Who We Are 2017-12-30 Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) 2019-11-06 Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) 2010-03-03 Trusting Your Basic Goodness 2012-05-01 TueAM-Guided-Meditation 2012-05-01 TueAM-Instructions-Q-A 2012-05-01 TuePM-Meditation-RAIN-of-Compassion 2012-12-19 Turning Toward the Light 2008-09-03 Turning Towards What You Love 2010-07-21 Turning Towards What You Love 2007-09-05 Two Kinds Of Happiness 2009-09-30 Two Wings of a Liberating Attention 1998-04-28 Unconditionally Friendly Toward Life 2015-06-26 Unfolding of the Sacred Feminine (retreat talk) 2008-05-21 Vesak - Path Of Awakening 2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - I 2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - II 2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - III 2001-01-01 Vipassana Meditation: Four Week Introductory Series - IV 2018-10-07 Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat 1998-12-08 Wakeful Relaxation 2013-12-28 Walking Meditation Instruction 2012-05-02 WedPM-Be-Who-You-Are 2018-07-18 What Is It Like Being You? 2011-02-23 When We are Lost 2011-08-24 Wholehearted Living 1998-05-04 Widening The Circle Of Compassion 2015-12-31 Widening the Circles of Compassion 2018-01-10 Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees Our Heart 2013-10-23 Wings of Homecoming 2007-08-29 Wise Effort 1998-01-03 Wise Effort & The Practices Of Awakening 2009-09-23 Wise Effort and Spiritual Freedom 1999-10-27 Wise Effort, Aspiration And Spiritual Freedom 2009-04-29 Wise Investigation 2012-10-24 Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance 2009-03-11 Without Anxiety About Imperfection 2020-02-19 Working with Trauma: Tara Interviews Jim Gordon, MD 2018-10-07 Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear 2020-08-26 Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear 2017-01-18 Your Awake Heart Is Calling You 2020-07-29 Your Awake Heart is Calling You 2016-08-24 Your Future Self - Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind 2019-08-21 “Good Othering” – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold 2016-11-23 “Play a Greater Part” – Part 2 - Bodhisattva for our Times 2016-06-01 Real But Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs 56:32 Download Listen Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of separation, self-aversion and/or blame of others. We can free ourselves from harmful beliefs by investigating them with a dedicated, mindful and courage presence. This talk guides us in mindful investigation through an illustrative story, an outline of steps, and a guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict. Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks In collection Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs