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Tara Brach

In this rich and heartful conversation, I join two dear Buddhist monks — Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho — who are in the process of founding Clear Mountain Monastery, a new Buddhist community in the Seattle area. Their bright, warm spirit brings a lighthearted and sincere presence to our dialogue, making this exchange a true joy to share.
 
Together, we explore many dimensions of the spiritual path — including my own journey of finding refuge during a dark time, the teachers who’ve inspired me, and the teachings that most deeply call to my heart. We also reflect on the practice of RAIN, the dance between directing attention and opening to what’s here, and how compassion and equanimity intertwine to support us in these challenging times.
 
 Along the way, we touch into the Pali word sanook — meaning fun or lightheartedness — which beautifully captures the spirit of our time together.
 
May this conversation nourish your own trust in the path and remind you of the goodness and joy that are always here, waiting to be discovered.
 
 In this talk, we’ll look at:
 - how trusting our basic goodness becomes the foundation for intimacy, creativity, and awakening compassion in a suffering world.
 - Tara’s own journey through illness and fear, and how softening around pain opens the heart to freedom and love.
 - the power of the RAIN meditation to transform judgment and reactivity into mindful presence and self-acceptance.
 - how taking a sacred pause helps us step out of the virtual trance and re-enter embodied awareness and connection
 - trusting Buddha-nature — the radiant goodness that shines through all beings — as the ultimate refuge in an unraveling world.
 
 Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho are part of Clear Mountain Monastery Project, an aspiring Buddhist forest monastery in the Seattle area. 
 
 Website: https://www.clearmountainmonastery.org/
 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ClearMountainMonastery

Trusting the Path: A Conversation on Refuge & Compassion | Tara Brach, Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho

This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness.

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (22:19 min)

In an age of polarization, conspiracy thinking, and deepening mistrust, how can we cultivate a trust that is wise and healing –for our own heart and the world? This talk explores the personal and collective forces that foster mistrust, and through reflection and applied practices, we’ll explore how to nurture a trust in basic goodness and a felt sense of belonging, even in the most divided times.

Awakening Trust in a Fractured World, Part 2

In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness in our bodies, and then opening to receive the entire play of sounds, sensations and feelings in awareness.

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:37 min)

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
 
 
 
In this talk, Tara explores:
 
 how the “wanting mind” pulls us away from presence and freedom. how unmet needs fuel craving and why substitutes never bring lasting joy. the suffering of identifying with desire and how mindfulness offers release. using the RAIN practice to recognize, allow, and soften the wanting mind. tracing back desire to discover love, belonging, and freedom already here.

Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home, Part 2

This guided meditation invites you to gently come home to the aliveness of the body. Through mindful awareness, you’ll learn to soften tension, release mental agitation, and rest in the simplicity of presence. As you bring a compassionate attention to sensations, you discover a refuge that is always here—an embodied wholeness that allows you to meet life with greater ease and tenderness.

Meditation: In the Body (20:29 min.)

Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
 
In this talk, Tara explores: 
 
- how the “wanting mind” pulls us away from presence and freedom.
 - how unmet needs fuel craving and why substitutes never bring lasting joy.
 - the suffering of identifying with desire and how mindfulness offers release.
 - using the RAIN practice to recognize, allow, and soften the wanting mind.
 - tracing back desire to discover love, belonging, and freedom already here.

Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home, Part 1

When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness.

Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:10 min.)

Awakening Trust in a Fractured World, Part 1

This brief practice calls on conscious breathing, relaxing, letting go and a touch of lovingkindness to nurture inner balance, harmony and ease.

Meditation: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.)

NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. 
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today’s world. You’ll be guided to discover an inner refuge—a way to meet your personal life and our collective world with greater presence and wisdom, courage and love.
 
In this first session, we explore what makes mindfulness truly transformational: the flow of effective training, the power of aspiration, how to use the breath as a home base, and the attitudes that support a steady, strong, and liberating practice. As poet W. S. Merwin writes, “Little breath, breathe me gently, row me gently, for I am a river I am learning to cross.”

Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 1

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