2014-10-01 - Part 1 - Unconditional Love

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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2014-10-01 - Part 1 - Unconditional Love - These two talks explore key elements in manifesting our innate capacity for unconditional love. Both talks include teachings and meditative strategies for recognizing our blocks to loving, and, through courageous, embodied presence, discovering who we are when not confined by the limiting beliefs and feelings of an egoic self. The first focuses on accepting and embracing our inner life, and the second, on the awakening of a loving presence that includes the whole of this living world.

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0:00.0	The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.
0:26.0	Namaste and welcome. In this human realm, perhaps the most core expression of spiritual
0:36.9	awakeness is love. And there's an expression I predicament, a description of predicament I
0:47.6	really like, which is called the big squeeze, which is day by day there's this deep capacity we have
0:58.0	to love and to be wise and accepting. And yet we can watch our moments of the day and see how many
1:10.1	times were pulled around by all sorts of reactivity and small mindedness and obsessiveness and
1:16.4	judgment. And so we're caught in this squeeze and you might think of it, you know, in terms of the
1:22.4	brain, the squeezes between our older systems, the limbic systems, the fight flight freeze, and then
1:29.3	are more fully activated frontal cortex. It's like there's kind of who's going to win out in a way.
1:36.4	Are you might think of it that just that's developmentally that there's a lot of strong conditioning.
1:43.0	You go at conditioning and we have a capacity to perceive and live from a greater sense of
1:51.8	wholeness and integration and love. As evolving creatures, it takes intention, an intentional
2:02.2	engagement in our own process to awaken the heart. It takes intention to awaken this capacity
2:09.6	really except unconditionally what's going on. And to really love without holding back love and
2:17.8	express our love, let people know. It takes intention. It takes intention to let it in some to put
2:24.4	down and be less defended in our heart. So what I'd like to explore this week and next week is
2:34.6	this path of unconditional loving and what the key elements are that help us to evolve our own
2:41.7	capacity. And as you might imagine, the starting place in any exploration of unconditional love is
2:54.4	how we're regarding the life right here. That's the starting place. So I'll read to one of my
3:02.8	favorite verses from St. Louis, Sargadatta, Indian teacher. He says, all you need is already
3:13.2	within you. Only must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-destress
3:21.1	are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you
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