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Tara Brach

Tara Brach

By: Tara Brach
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 Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance, True Refuge and Radical Compassion. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that address the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.Tara Brach - All rights reserved Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Spirituality
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  • This Messy, Gorgeous Love—a Conversation with Tara and Devon and Nico Hase

    This Messy, Gorgeous Love—a Conversation with Tara and Devon and Nico Hase
    Apr 9 2026

    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 what truly supports a deep and loving partnership: how to meet conflict and reactivity, how practice comes alive in everyday moments, how to bring mindful presence into sexuality, and how reflecting on impermanence can deepen intimacy. While centered on intimate partners, the teachings speak to the whole field of our relationships.

    Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)

    Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)
    Apr 8 2026

    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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    20 mins
  • Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

    Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence
    Apr 3 2026

    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 disconnection and the longing for love. As we learn to turn toward our inner experience with kindness, we naturally widen our circles of compassion and deepen our capacity to meet others with presence and care.

    In this talk, Tara explores:

    ✨ How compassion is the foundation of human connection and collective healing
    ✨ The two forces within us: fear-based reactivity and the call of the awakened heart
    ✨ Why "caring about caring" is itself a doorway to love and transformation
    ✨ Practices for turning toward vulnerability and deepening empathy (including Tonglen)
    ✨ How widening our circles of compassion can help heal both personal and global suffering

    Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
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    56 mins
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I have listened to many of Tara’s podcasts and books and am always impressed by her insightful approach to the reality of life’s ups and downs. Highly recommend her meditations, conversations & books which I always find very helpful in focusing on what might be going on in my head and heart.

Tara is an insightful & wise person

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Tara had a lovely voice. Her talks are really interesting. The mediations are the best I have listened to.

Calm and informative talks and meditation

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Tara is plugged in to the main Source. Her wisdom is accessible, elegant, funny, and very manageable in incorporating into everyday life. Her meditations transport me. What a gift.

A game changer

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I love this podcast and it's helped me so much. I have one small comment: in one of the episodes,Tara refers to anti-Zionist demonstrations as "anti-Semitic", which is a misconception.

Beautiful, practical podcast

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