Tara Brach

A profound transformation can occur just by training your attention in awareness—a practice sweeping schools, workplaces, and institutions with its capacity to decrease stress, cultivate inner calm, and expand wisdom and creativity.

When life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable losses arise, we easily react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger, self-judgment, and addictive behaviors.

Created for mental health professionals and illuminating to anyone interested in the core techniques, practices, and insights of Buddhist psychology, this experience-focused audio learning program helps us find our way back to natural presence, a place where peace and our deep love for life grows.

Why is it often so hard to truly connect with others, even those we care most about? “Our capacity to engage fully in relationship starts with becoming more awake and aware within ourselves,” says Tara Brach.

Here’s a worthy dharma talk from a woman teacher and psychologist who founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C., one of the largest and most active Buddhist meditation communities in the eastern U.S.