Free Yourself From Blame & Resentment - by Tara Brach

COURSE

Free Yourself From Blame & Resentment

With Tara Brach

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.


Meet your Teacher

Tara Brach, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, internationally renowned teacher of mindfulness meditation and author of bestsellers Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. For over 40 years, Tara has been exploring the interface of Buddhist and Western psychology in addressing the great suffering that arises when we close our hearts to ourselves and others. In this course, as in her writing, Tara draws from her own inner work, her extensive training in psychology and from teaching others how, with meditation, we can heal our relationships with ourselves and our world. The selected themes presented in this course are part of a body of teachings that Tara shares in her podcasts. These weekly talks explore the role of mindfulness and compassion in the realization of our full human potential and are downloaded more than a million times each month by listeners around the world. Tara is passionate about bringing mindfulness to underserved populations and, in addition to her public teaching, she active in bringing meditation into Washington, DC area schools and prisons, and to issues of racism and social justice. In response to the need for more mindfulness and compassion teachers, Tara has joined with Jack Kornfield in offering the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program — a primarily online training program that currently includes participants from 20 countries around the globe.

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10 Days

87.3k students

4.9 stars

14 min / day

Relationships

English


Lesson 1

Removing the Barriers to Love

The path to forgiveness begins with recognizing the ways we create separation and aspiring to not push anyone, including ourselves, out of our heart. In this opening session, we explore the definition of forgiveness and what keeps us holding so tightly to blame. The guided meditation will help you identify where you are creating separation and to set your intention to free your heart.

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Lesson 2

The Two Wings of a Forgiving Heart

We learn to release blame and hatred by awakening the two wings of awareness: Mindfulness and Compassion. In this session, we begin to cultivate these wings by developing self-compassion. We look at the ‘trance of unworthiness’ and then explore a practice I call the ‘Yes’ meditation that helps undo the deep conditioning to contract in self-aversion.

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Lesson 3

Realizing “It’s Not My Fault”

Understanding causality and releasing self-blame are the necessary first steps towards true responsibility—the capacity to respond with compassion and wisdom to our life. In this session, we examine how self-blame deepens the grooves of harmful reactivity. The guided meditation will help you to see the suffering driving the behaviors you judge as ‘bad’ and enable a shift to relating to yourself with kindness.

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Lesson 4

The RAIN of Self-Forgiveness

This session moves forward with a full practice of self-forgiveness. It is based on a powerful and easy-to-remember tool that awakens self-compassion: the acronym RAIN. In this practice, you will create the foundations to open your heart and include all beings, without exception.

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Lesson 5

When We Can’t Forgive

There are times when we are unable to access the self-compassion needed for self-forgiveness. This session explores how, if we get stuck in the conditioning of hatred or anger, we can reach out to a larger belonging and discover the loving presence that, in the moment, is difficult to access within. The guided practice will help you find a pathway to a source of loving that is larger than the small, separate, hurting self.

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Lesson 6

Self-Forgiveness and Making Amends

For self-forgiveness to be complete, we need to offer our sincere prayer, care and sometimes, active help to those who have been injured. This session guides us in offering our heart’s care where there has been injury, even if the person is no longer alive. The guided practice will support you in this very tender and healing process.

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Lesson 7

100% Responsible: Learning to Make the U-Turn

In this session, we move from self-forgiveness to extending our forgiveness to others. This process begins as we take full responsibility for our own feelings and bring a healing compassion to our own wounds. I call it the ‘U-turn’. The guided practice will help you make a healing shift from blame to tending to the wounded place inside you.

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Lesson 8

Practicing the RAIN of Forgiveness

After learning to make the U-turn, we can find the inner resourcefulness to extend forgiveness. In this session, we bring all the previous steps together and explore the full practice of forgiveness: asking for forgiveness, offering forgiveness to ourselves and extending forgiveness to others. You will find this forgiveness practice to be a life practice, one of dissolving the armor that surrounds your heart.

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Lesson 9

Seeing Past the “Enemy’s” Mask

In the same way that we can open our hearts in our personal relationships, we can be part of the awakening of hearts in our wider society. This session explores how we can learn to see past the mask of those who we don’t know, those we might consider as ‘bad’ other. The guided meditation will help you see the vulnerability in all beings that can awaken a heart of compassion.

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Lesson 10

Freedom of a Forgiving Heart

This final session explores what it means to live with a forgiving heart. When our hearts are awake and inclusive, the light and love of the universe shines through us. We are manifesting our full potential. A beautiful expression of this awakened consciousness is the capacity to see the sacred as it lives through all beings. In the guided practice, you will explore seeing the goodness in others, seeing the humanness and realizing the space of loving awareness that is our shared source.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 1149 community questions and 51 audio replies from Tara Brach. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Sarah

February 28, 2026

I’ve been struggling with feelings of anger and resentment after a recent misunderstanding with a friend. I was trying to let it go but the feelings kept eating away at me. This course helped me to feel genuinely free of them. I feel the peace of resting in forgiving heart. Thank you, Tara.

Barbara

February 22, 2026

Thank you Tara for this extremely valuable course. It has been a life raft in a turbulent sea and I find it therapeutic to plan on repeating it at regular intervals during these stressful times. Little gives me hope these days, but the wisdom woven throughout this course has given me a sense of peace that has been so elusive. It is comforting to know that I can return to this safe harbor as needed. Much gratitude to you. 🙏🏻☯️💚🪷

Chrissy

February 21, 2026

What a gift. Tara’s course has helped break through the hardness in my heart with her soft, steady and wise words. No judgement, no ego. She meets us on a level playing field to simply examine our thoughts to help uncover false beliefs and forgive ourselves as well as others. The layers are stripped and I feel like a butterfly fresh from a cocoon, tender and vulnerable but hopeful that I can work to release my constraints and spread my wings. Much gratitude to you Tara.

Mary

February 15, 2026

This course helps to include meditation as a daily practice.

Diana

February 14, 2026

Thank you so much for this very Heart opening class!

Dawn

February 14, 2026

Profound and insightful. Thank you Tara Brach for a beautiful course.

Liz

February 12, 2026

Provided insights on self amends and living consciously instead of in reactivity.

Johanna

February 11, 2026

A wonderful class. I needed this to help me through opening my heart and healing my relationship with my son. Thank you!

A-L

February 9, 2026

This lucid and beautifully presented course opened my heart to new approaches to deep anger and old hurts, and helped me to see more clearly and with greater self compassion longstanding (and seemingly intractable) mental patterns of blame and resentment. Deeply wise and practical. Thank you Tara! What a great gift.

Lee

February 5, 2026

Could not get enough of her sessions Obrigado

Alan

February 4, 2026

Tara is a fantastic guide for my spirit and soul. This course has been valuable for me at a time when I am going through some hard times and wanting to be my best self and show up with love and compassion for everyone - myself, those who I have hurt and those who hurt me. Thank you.

Sunshine

January 31, 2026

This is amazing and life changing. It is filled with wisdom, perfect metaphors, mediation,and thought provoking stories. I wish my whole family, my friends and my partner would listen to this course.

Bradley

January 29, 2026

you really helped me

Adrijana1111

January 23, 2026

Very beautiful and made me very emotional...🤍🤍🤍

Adele

January 15, 2026

Thank you, Tara, for sharing your wisdom and goodness 🙏💕

J

January 13, 2026

Spectacular.

Tasjha

January 13, 2026

Tara Brach blows my heart open. Thank you.

Mary

January 13, 2026

You are a blessing, Tara Brach. Such gentle wisdom.🙏 This is a course that I will take again as I so need the lessons.💓

Victoria

January 9, 2026

A gift and compulsory subject for humanity

Mike

December 30, 2025

This is important work. I intend to share it with others.

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