Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love, Part 1 - Lovingkindness
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Discover the essence of lovingkindness in this first talk of Tara's series, "Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love." This series delves into four primary qualities of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
In Part 1, Tara explores the nature of lovingkindness — how it can be blocked by our habitual patterns, and how we can nurture and fully realize this innate capacity through mindful practices and understanding.
What You'll Learn:
▪️Understanding the nature of lovingkindness and its role in spiritual growth
▪️Recognizing the habitual patterns that block the expression of love
▪️Learning practical techniques to cultivate and deepen lovingkindness
▪️Insights on how lovingkindness can transform your relationship with yourself and others
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:11.0 | Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing to our world. |
| 0:21.5 | You can learn more our support this offering |
| 0:24.3 | by visiting tarabrock.com, |
| 0:27.0 | where you can also join our email list. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, let's explore together |
| 0:34.7 | the many ways we can live from the love and presence that's our deepest essence. |
| 0:47.5 | Namaste, welcome friends. Each week I pause and I try to listen in to our collective heart and |
| 1:21.3 | psyche and also inward to this stream I call me and sense what to reflect on together, what talk, what's |
| 1:31.5 | really going to serve. And so as I was contemplating this, I ran across a message from |
| 1:37.1 | Ticknat Han goes like this. He says, this, my dear, is the greatest challenge to being alive, to witness injustice in the world |
| 1:49.0 | and not allow it to consume our light. |
| 1:55.0 | Not allow it to consume our light. |
| 1:58.0 | It's just so much truth in that that when injustice and in particular when |
| 2:04.6 | cruelty is spiking as it is in these days, it can bring out our own shadow, our own reactivity, |
| 2:15.6 | and what our world really needs is our light. So we protect our light in a daily |
| 2:21.8 | way by nurturing our hearts. And in this human realm, really light shines through an open and |
| 2:30.0 | present heart. So it's in that spirit that I decided over these next weeks to explore the different |
| 2:38.6 | flavors of love. In Buddhism, they're described as loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. |
| 2:47.1 | And to do this, I'll be drawing on a series from the archives that I love. |
| 2:51.8 | And we'll take these weeks together to nurture our hearts. |
| 2:56.9 | Before beginning, I want to name something that some might be wondering about, |
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