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  1. Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

    In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persistent call toward love, compassion, and belonging. Drawing on stories, reflections, and conte

  2. Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:52 min)

    In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful awareness of breath, sensation, and the changing flow of experience

  3. Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Mohsen Mahdawi - Part II

    In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life bridges worlds that are so often held apart. Growing up in a refugee camp and later emerging as a

  4. Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)

    Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emoti

  5. Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Mohsen Mahdawi - Part I

    In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life bridges worlds that are so often held apart. Growing up in a refugee camp and later emerging as a

  6. Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)

    Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us to the realization of the flow of changing experience and the b

  7. The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2

    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 di

  8. Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)

    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

  9. The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1

    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

  10. Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)

    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 boundles

  11. Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers

    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 discove

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

    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 o

  13. The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

    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 evolution

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

    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 t

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

    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 contro

  16. Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min)

    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

  17. Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 1

    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 contro

  18. Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:43 min.)

    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 ex

  19. 3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform Everything

    What might change if you were three degrees friendlier than you are now? Not more accommodating or self-sacrificing, but authentically friendlier—to your inner life, with others, and in how you meet the world. In this talk, I explore what f

  20. Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:33 min.)

    This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing with whatever arises, letting life be just a

  21. Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:34 min.)

    This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising and passing life. In the final part of the

  22. How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

    What if hope is not something we cling to—but a capacity we can cultivate? In this talk, we'll explore how hope becomes a healing and liberating force when it is rooted in awareness, trust, and compassionate action. The mature expression of

  23. How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1

    The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on

  24. Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)

    We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from "the inside out," opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic pres

  25. Coming Home to True Refuge | Finding Peace Through Awareness, Truth, and Love

    In this talk, we'll explore what it truly means to find refuge—not through controlling life, but by coming home to the living truth of our experience. Our deepest refuge—the source of peace, safety, and freedom—is discovered through direct

  26. Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)

    In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we move through life identified with thought, we can lose touch with

  27. Seeing the Light in Each Other

    This talk explores how to see past the mask of personality and glimpse the sacred goodness shining through each person we meet. As we become mirrors of this goodness, we help one another trust the divine essence that connects us all. Our in

  28. Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:26 min.)

    This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises with a gentle attention. Our introduction music is from "Open

  29. Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)

    The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that everything's happening in; the space that lets everything be, just as it is

  30. The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention 2

    While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can become the compass of our heart, guiding and creating our life experience. In these two talks we explor

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