About this episode

Tara Brach discusses the importance of choosing love and cultivating compassion in challenging times.

Tara Brach is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and she has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975. She recently released a new book, The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times, which is a practical guide for awakening courage and cultivating compassion for ourselves and our world. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Brach to talk about what courage looks like in our current moment, how choosing love can help counter the dangers of what she calls the trance of separation, how we can learn to recognize our own basic goodness, and the power of reconnecting with our aspiration and sense of what matters most. Plus, Brach leads a guided meditation.

People in this episode

Host: James Shaheen

Guest: Tara Brach

Topics covered

• courage
• love
• meditation
• compassion
• self-awareness
• spirituality

Keywords

• Tara Brach
• meditation
• courage
• compassion
• spirituality
• self-love
• guided meditation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Insight Meditation Community of Washington

Books & works: The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times

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