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Tara Brach



Tara Brach, PhD, is an American psychologist and insight meditation (vipassana) teacher. Her writing, teaching, and speaking discuss emotional healing and spiritual awakening and bring together principles from Western psychology and Buddhist thought and practice.

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Tara Brach Leads a Guided Meditation: Opening and Calming

This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is.

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Awakening Joy for Kids: A Hands-On Guide for Grown-Ups to Nourish Themselves and Raise Mindful, Happy Children

Spirit Rock founder, author, and teacher James Baraz’s Awakening Joy offers his large and devoted readership a program to gain contentment and happiness by cultivating the seeds of joy within.

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Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships

In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet each day we listen to inner voices that keep our life small.

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True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss? If you’re like most people, chances are you react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger,...

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Tonglen: Radical Compassion - Tara Brach Leads a Short Talk and Meditation

We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion.

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Buddha’s Daughters: Teachings from Women Who Are Shaping Buddhism in the West

Buddhism began to take root in the West at just the same time that women’s voices were arising to find expression here—after millennia of being relegated to the background.

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FindCenter Quotes ImagePerhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

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‘I Realized I Don’t Have to Believe My Thoughts’

Our mindfulness practice is not about vanquishing our thoughts. It’s about becoming aware of the process of thinking so that we are not in a trance—lost inside our thoughts.

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Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski: Heavenly Messengers

Tara interviews Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice on a contemplative approach to death and dying.

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