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Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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

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11:46

Tara Brach: Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes”...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/25

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from the archives).

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60:56

Tara Brach: Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

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2024/12/25

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is our source (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).I really invite you to experiment and find the way of remembering love that warms your heart because it’ll help you trust your heart and we

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58:07

Tara Brach: Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/18

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a divided, reactive, and violent world, how do we embrace love and joy? How do we genuinely include our opponents in our hearts? What gives us the courage to bring our whole being into serving and savoring? And what is our vision for a new world? In this fresh and profoundly relevant conversation, Tara Brach and Valarie Kaur explore the challenges and potential of these turbulent times. Valarie, a Sikh activist, filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, and

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16:35

Tara Brach: Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/18

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.

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19:52

Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/11

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom of our own natural awareness.

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48:43

Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/11

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emotional reactivity, and the practices that cultivate equanimity, resilience and a full, openhearted presence. We dedicate to these practices for the sake of our own freedom, and the wellbeing of all

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23:24

Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/04

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and practice “relaxing back” when the mind gets lost in thought.

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45:01

Tara Brach: A Heart that is Ready for Anything – The...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/12/04

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In a world where the pace and magnitude of change is beyond anything ever experienced by humans, we are being called to cultivate the qualities of calm, inner balance and a steady, wise heart. These two talks look at the conditioning that fuels our emotional reactivity, and the practices that cultivate equanimity, resilience and a full, openhearted presence. We dedicate to these practices for the sake of our own freedom, and the wellbeing of all

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52:35

Tara Brach: Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/27

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with gratitude. We end with a guided meditation that includes sharings from the group. The audio includes a poem of blessing by John O’Donohue with a brief cut from Robert Gass – Om Namaha Shivaya (from the

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24:12

Tara Brach: Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/27

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others. Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the

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57:23

Tara Brach: The Honesty Challenge – Getting More...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/20

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives. We close with a quote by Danna Faulds from her book:

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18:01

Tara Brach: Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/20

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this

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Tara Brach: Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/13

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) 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.

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54:00

Tara Brach: The Gift of Self-Compassion: A...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/13

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual dimensions of self-compassion, and the role of compassion in these current times. This was initially recorded live for those in Kristin’s membership community and includes several question/responses. For more information about Kristin Neff’s Self-Compassion Community, click the

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16:51

Tara Brach: Meditation: Remembering Your Spiritual...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/06

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) During times of great collective stress, it’s common to get gripped by waves of anxiety and fear. This guided meditation, an adaptation of the Tibetan tonglen practice, helps us reconnect with our spiritual heart, the sea of love and light that can hold even the most painful waves in our lives.

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51:37

Tara Brach: Becoming Bodhisattvas in a Troubled World

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/11/06

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Thich Nhat Hanh said “no mud, no lotus.” How might anger, hatred and delusion—the mud of these times– give rise to a growing compassion and wisdom in our world? In this talk, we look directly at the angst surrounding the US elections and explore several powerful teachings and practices that can serve as the catalyst for profound transformation and an evolving of wisdom and love in our collective consciousness.

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48:27

Tara Brach: Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/23

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding – to ourselves, each other and our world – with courageous, wise hearts.

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58:15

Tara Brach: Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/16

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing – the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there’s a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being.

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18:27

Tara Brach: Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence

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2024/10/16

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) 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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Tara Brach: Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times –...

Tara Brach"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) ·

2024/10/09

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and practices that can help us all in responding to our world with as much clarity, equanimity and love as possible. Learn more about Dan Harris and subscribe to his new substack platform at

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