Tara Brach: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times
What if the bravest thing you can do right now is refusing to close your heart?
This week, Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach—beloved meditation teacher, clinical psychologist, and bestselling author of Radical Acceptance and Trusting the Gold—about her new inner workbook with Sounds True, The Courageous Heart: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times. At a moment when so many people feel pulled between despair and action, Tara offers a grounded path through both.
Join Tami and Tara to explore:
- How to stay spiritually engaged—without burning out or spiritually bypassing the reality of suffering
- The bodhisattva path as a living practice: what it means to be an “awakening being” in ordinary, everyday life
- Why grief is often covered over by anger—and how moving through grief unlocks the capacity for love and action
- The RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) for working with armoring, fear, and excruciating pain in the heart
- The shift from head space to heart space—and a brief guided meditation to experience it directly
- How aspiration becomes the fuel for the spiritual path—and why Tara “sandwiches” her day with it
- The practice of seeing basic goodness in others—including stories of Father Gregory Boyle and John Lewis that illuminate how this changes everything
- What to do when you feel alone, disconnected, and uncertain where to start
Whether you’re overwhelmed by current events or searching for a more engaged and openhearted way to meet this moment, Tara Brach offers both the courage and the practical tools to begin.
Listen now and choose to love. →
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.
