{"id":569,"date":"2013-05-18T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/05\/meditation-guru-tara-brach.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:54:38","slug":"meditation-guru-tara-brach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/05\/meditation-guru-tara-brach.html","title":{"rendered":"Meditation Guru Tara Brach"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XfnHRXV44yc\/UZgMHuqEMkI\/AAAAAAAACqU\/4qbm2mYl8Co\/s1600\/tara+brach.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XfnHRXV44yc\/UZgMHuqEMkI\/AAAAAAAACqU\/4qbm2mYl8Co\/s400\/tara+brach.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Washington Post Reporter, Michelle Boorstein, profiles <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist meditation<\/a> guru, Tara Brach, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/meditation-guru-tara-brach-is-calm-eye-of-washingtons-stress-filled-storm\/2013\/05\/18\/48674bb8-b409-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this Washington Post report<\/a>, that includes a photo gallery. Brach is one of the most popular meditation teachers in the Washington metropolitan area. Her talks are saved as\u00a0pod-casts\u00a0and downloaded\u00a0almost\u00a0200,000 times each month. Some Buddhists critics think that she secularizes meditation too much in an effort to appeal to a broader audience. In any case, Brach seems to demonstrate the popularity of meditation. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onbeing.org\/program\/yoga-meditation-action\/248\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sean Corn is another teacher <\/a>who was profiled on Krista Tippett\u2019s show, On Being, a couple of years ago. \u00a0She also shows the popularity of meditation and yoga.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Reporter, Michelle Boorstein, profiles Buddhist meditation guru, Tara Brach, in this Washington Post report, that includes a photo gallery. Brach is one of the most popular meditation teachers in the Washington metropolitan area. Her talks are saved as\u00a0pod-casts\u00a0and downloaded\u00a0almost\u00a0200,000 times each month. 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