Everybody Has Buddha Nature

Buddha-awaken

by Tara Brach:  Over a decade ago, a small group of Buddhist teachers and psychologists from the United States and Europe invited the Dalai Lama to join them in a dialogue about emotions and health.

Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness)

Awaken

by Tara Brach: The Buddhist practice for developing mindfulness is called vipassana, which means “clear insight” or “seeing clearly” in Pali, the language of the Buddha. What follows is a simple introduction to this practice…

Tara Brach First, Forgive Yourself

Tej Rae talks to Buddhist meditation leader, psychotherapist and author Tara Brach about how to wake up from ‘the trance of unworthiness’…

Learning To Respond, Not React – Tara Brach

Tara-Brach-awaken

by Tara Brach: If we are to wake up out of our patterning, a key element of that is to be able to pause, recognize and open to a larger space than the cocoon that our mind is creating in thought…

Come to Your Senses

Accepting our physical sensations—whether pleasant or not—is one of the most challenging and liberating of practices.

When Ego Meets Non-Ego

by Andrea Miller: The open sky, the scent of pine, the smell of sea—summer in Cape Cod felt to Tara Brach like her true home. As she was growing up, the family’s summerhouse filled with relatives and friends, and later in her life with spouses and new children.

Working with Our Stories: An Interview with Tara Brach

by Tara Brach: Inquiring Mind: In your book you talk about being caught for years in what you call “the trance of unworthiness,” always feeling as if something were wrong with you. How did you first realize that you could let go of that story and accept yourself?