Tara Brach: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times
6/23/20261 hr 3 min
What does it mean to keep your heart open when the world feels most dangerous? Tami Simon speaks with beloved meditation teacher Tara Brach—author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold—about her new inner workbook The Courageous Heart: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times. Tami and Tara discuss how to stay engaged without being overwhelmed, why grief is often the doorway to love, and what it takes to widen the circles of belonging in perilous times.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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First 90 secondsTami Simon· Host0:00
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Tara Brach· Guest0:02
[gentle music] The aspiration is to realize and trust and live from loving awareness, to realize that's what we are, to really trust that. And that's been there for many, many years.
Tami Simon· Host0:26
[upbeat music] Welcome, friends. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Tara Brach, a beloved meditation teacher, friend of Sounds True, best-selling author of five books, including Radical Acceptance, Trusting the Gold, and a new inner workbook with Sounds True. It's called The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times. Each month, more than two million people tune in to Tara Brach's podcast, which addresses the value of meditation in relieving emotional suffering and serving spiritual awakening and the transformation of society. Tara worked as a clinical psychologist for more than 20 years, and along with Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach has created the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program,