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Tara Brach
Personal blog · tarabrach.comhealthphilosophy
Tara Brach's personal blog at tarabrach.com covers health and philosophy. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tara Brach's site for guided meditations and talks on self-compassion, and for an inviting-Mara-to-tea story and a talk on working through overwhelm.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tara Brach, Ph.D, psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening.
What Hacker News says?
I listen to guided meditations. They are easy to find online and sometimes only take ~15 min. Here are some of the websites that I use: https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/ http://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-medita... http://www.mindfulselfcompassion.org/meditations_downloads.p...
Comment linking /guided-meditations/
on “Burnout and Mental Health”Here are some guided meditation recordings that I found very helpful for getting started (if you’re on mobile, scroll to the right for the play button): https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations Of these, I have listened to the Breathing Meditation (5 min) and the Body Scan for Sleep (13 min) the most and would recommend them. Maybe keep the 5 minute one open in a tab, and if you find yourself in a procras…
Comment linking /new-to-meditation/
on “I Got My Attention Back (2017)”Exercise is an excellent way to build outer confidence and self-esteem. On the inner level, I would recommend practicing compassion meditation, especially self-compassion. Many of us have a belief that there is something wrong with us, that we are deficient. If you can face this feeling in a gentle and self-compassionate way, you can bring the emotion to the surface and release it. Over time it subsides. This will a…
Comment linking /meditation-the-rain-of-self-compassion/
on “Ask HN: Courses/resources to improve my self-esteem and believe in myself more?”I can also recommend https://www.tarabrach.com/radical-compassion/ as a great introduction to the idea of self compassion and some very practical ways to practice it.
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on “Self-compassion is not self-indulgence”The story of the Buddha ’inviting Mara to tea’ stuck with me. It involves more embracing of fears than “just worry”, but probably does take more emotional investment. https://www.tarabrach.com/inviting-mara-to-tea/
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on “The “just worrying” labelling technique [pdf]”This is helpful for me: https://www.tarabrach.com/taratalks-meditation-rain-working-... Everyone responds differently to different “teachers”, so you may watch that video and feel it’s a bunch of bullshit. For you it may be. Generally just sitting and being present with what you feel physically in the body and just allowing it is very powerful.Sometimes it feels like you want to die, or the worst anxiety, other time…
Comment linking /taratalks-meditation-rain-working-difficult-emotions/
on “Ask HN: How to regain focus when you feel overwhelmed?”