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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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01:13:10

This Messy, Gorgeous Love—a Conversation with Tara...

Tara Brach ·

2026/04/09

Tara is joined by two longtime friends and wonderful teachers, Devon and Nico Hase, to explore their recent book, This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership. This refreshingly real and relatable book offers guidance for anyone wanting to deepen love in their relationships. Drawing from their own lived experience—with humor, humility, and insight—Devon and Nico reveal how partnership can be both challenging and profoundly transformative. In this conversation, they explore

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19:42

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2026/04/08

Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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56:09

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation...

Tara Brach ·

2026/04/03

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 contemplative practices, this talk invites us to remember that caring is our true nature, even when it feels distant or obscured. Through mindful awareness and heart-centered practices, we begin to sense how our awakened heart calls us—through both the pain of

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22:52

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/04/01

True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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52:56

Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach...

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/26

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 student leader and advocate for Palestinian dignity, Mohsen brings a rare integration of spiritual depth, clarity and dedication to societal transformation. Together they explore how inner awakening can ground fearless activism, what it means to stand for

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20:21

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/25

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 emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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33:47

Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach...

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/19

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 student leader and advocate for Palestinian dignity, Mohsen brings a rare integration of spiritual depth, clarity and dedication to societal transformation. Together they explore how inner awakening can ground fearless activism, what it means to stand for

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21:16

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/18

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 background awareness that is the source of our Being. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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57:45

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/12

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?"

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18:02

Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/11

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

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56:26

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/05

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

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21:49

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)

Tara Brach ·

2026/03/04

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

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01:05:06

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/26

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

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19:38

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/25

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

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51:21

The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/19

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

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20:14

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as...

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/18

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

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01:04:39

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/12

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

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18:27

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min)

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/12

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

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01:00:27

Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom 1

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/05

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

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20:43

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/02/04

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 experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara's Wednesday night class, the meditation ends with a sense of melting into community – relaxed and alert. Our

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