Voices of Longing Calling You Home: Desire and Addiction, with Tara Brach (Part 1)

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 Watch Part 2 here: https://youtube.com/live/iP7cf2O3tLM Support Tara's Work: If you find value in these talks and wish to support their continuation, please consider making a donation. Your generosity helps us keep these teachings available to all. Visit: https://www.tarabrach.com/donation/ ✨Subscribe to Tara's Channel: https://tbrach.com/SubscribeYT With thanks and love, Tara --- Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety? Heart Medicine for Anxiety is a guided meditation by Tara Brach that offers a calming pathway back to presence and peace. This meditation helps you reconnect with the loving awareness that holds your life, gently guiding you through anxiety to a place of grounding and compassion. Listen now and discover a soothing way to return to yourself, one breath at a time. https://tbrach.com/heart-medicine Self-compassion is the beginning of all emotional and spiritual healing, and compassion for others is the medicine our world needs to move towards harmony and peace. This program introduces the RAIN meditation, the most powerful practice I know for healing our own hearts and bringing our full loving into the world. Enroll in the course here: https://tbrach.com/4fQkTci Stay connected to Tara: ▪️YouTube: Subscribe & Like the Channel ▪️Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ▪️Spotify Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/37McjD0... ▪️Website: tarabrach.com ▪️Facebook: /tarabrach ▪️Instagram: @tarabrach