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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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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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52:09

3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform...

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/29

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 friendliness actually is, why it so often shuts down under stress, and how small, accessible practices can bring it back online—and, over time, uplevel your friendliness quotient. As our hearts become more friendly, we become more inwardly free. Our everyday

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18:33

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/28

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 as it is. The underlying intention is to regard all experience with a clear, interested and friendly attention. The gift is a homecoming to our naturally loving presence. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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20:34

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness...

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/21

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 practice, we explore how awake awareness is receiving the experience of our heart and offer blessings to our inner life and all living beings. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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58:24

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/21

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 hope includes three interwoven elements: the aspiration to awaken our full potential, a trust in the possibility of that unfolding, and the energy to engage in service to life. We'll also look at why hope matters so deeply on the spiritual path, how it can

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49:17

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/15

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 the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world. Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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21:30

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

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/14

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 presence (from the archives). Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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01:03:07

Coming Home to True Refuge | Finding Peace Through...

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/08

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 realization of reality itself. Drawing on the Buddhist understanding of refuge, we explore three timeless and archetypal gateways: • Awareness (Buddha) — the wakeful presence that knows our experience • Truth (Dharma) — the wisdom that liberates us when we see

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19:35

Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)

Tara Brach ·

2026/01/08

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 the aliveness, vastness, and mystery of Being. This practice offers a gentle pathway to inhabit your energetic form—sensing the vibrancy of life moving through you—while also resting in the boundless, formless stillness that is the source of all experience. This

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47:50

Seeing the Light in Each Other

Tara Brach ·

2025/12/18

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 introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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21:28

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

Tara Brach ·

2025/12/17

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 "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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22:26

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

Tara Brach ·

2025/12/10

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. It's in that full allowing that we discover the center of now, that pure still presence that is the very source of our being. The meditation ends with an offering of prayer as that presence is experienced in the domain of the heart. Our introduction music is

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54:26

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention 2

Tara Brach ·

2025/12/10

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 explore how we awaken mindfulness of intention and how, when we are caught in habits that create suffering, we can find our way home to the deep intention that heals and frees us. The two talks include reflections and practices that can bring the power of intention

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59:30

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention 1

Tara Brach ·

2025/12/04

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 explore how we awaken mindfulness of intention and how, when we are caught in habits that create suffering, we can find our way home to the deep intention that heals and frees us. The two talks include reflections and practices that can bring the power of intention

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