Ruth

Cardiff, UK

Risa Moore

Naples, FL, USA

Rachel 3Taylor

Columbia, SC, USA

Nel Bi

Melbourne VIC, Australia

Carol Shwidock

Stamford, CT, USA

Sarah Cotten

Tucson, AZ, USA

Barbara Hudson

D'Iberville, Mississippi, USA

Dawn

Milan, Italy

Johanna Rowan

Denver, CO 80228, USA

A-L Oliphant

Washington, Dist. of Columbia, United States

Sunshine Riley

Volcano, HI, USA

Mary

Jamestown, NY

Corinna Lenneis

Wien, Österreich

Brandy

Oak Park, IL, USA

Julie

Waltham

Tricia

Akasha

New orleans

Jean

Dallas, TX, USA

Gina Ferrara

Connecticut, USA

Release judgment and cultivate self-compassion as you open your heart to yourself and others.

Removing the Barriers to Love

The Two Wings of a Forgiving Heart

Realizing “It’s Not My Fault”

The RAIN of Self-Forgiveness

When We Can’t Forgive

Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends

100% Responsible: Learning to Make the U-Turn

Practicing the RAIN of Forgiveness

Seeing Past the “Enemy’s” Mask

Freedom of a Forgiving Heart

Healing

Forgiveness Meditation

Relationships

Buddhism

Traditions

Forgiveness

Visualization

English

In Buddhism, forgiveness is the prerequisite to loving fully. One way of understanding forgiveness is never putting another person or ourselves out of our heart. Over 10 sessions, you'll scan your life and identify where you create separation through judgment, resentment and aversion. We’ll practice, together, the most powerful reflections and meditations I know that cultivate a forgiving heart.

Identify where you create separation and free yourself from anger and blame.

Free Yourself From Blame & Resentment

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 Greetings, my friends. I'm Tara Brach and I want to welcome you to this ten-day forgiveness course on Insight Timer. I'm really excited to be offering this program because waking up from the trance of judgment and blame has been so central and freeing on my path and I've seen how it's brought healing to so many others. As many might know, in Buddhism forgiveness is the prerequisite to loving fully. One way of understanding forgiveness is never putting another person or ourself out of our heart. As we know, we often move through the day creating separation, judging or blaming people for the ways they treat us or others and just as much we're at war with ourselves, often critical, unforgiving and unkind towards our own being. So the course starts right here with self-compassion, looking at the practices that help us forgive and accept ourselves in the face of that daily sense of falling short as well as forgiving ourselves when we've been living with deep self-condemnation. Then we'll extend that compassion to others, those who are close, those who've wounded us, those we don't know, those who may no longer be alive. Through the ten sessions I'll ask each of you to honestly scan your life and identify where you create separation through judgment, resentment, aversion and we'll practice together the most powerful reflections and meditations I know that cultivate a forgiving heart. Your dedication to waking up in this way is one of the greatest gifts you can offer yourself and your dear ones. In a global way I think we know forgiveness is the medicine humanity most needs to bring more peace, more understanding to our world. Imagine for a moment relating to yourself and others with genuine acceptance, including all imperfections, all of what we are. This open-heartedness is our potential and our courage to forgive, to release armor surrounding our heart, frees us to love without holding back. I hope you'll join me.