Awakening Your Fearless Heart: Tara Brach on Facing Fear (Part 2)

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Fear is a universal human experience, but when it dominates our inner world, it can trap us in a sense of separation and suffering. In this profound talk, Tara Brach introduces how the transformative power of the RAIN meditation can help us face fear with courage and compassion. By bringing mindfulness and loving awareness to fear, we can move beyond its grip and reconnect with the boundless freedom of our true nature.

What You’ll Learn:

Understanding Fear: How fear arises and creates a sense of separation.
The Power of RAIN: A step-by-step guide to using RAIN meditation to work with fear.
Awakening Awareness: Discovering the boundless love and presence that holds all emotions, including fear.

Highlights:

Gain tools to transform fear into a gateway for healing and spiritual awakening.
Explore the compassionate practices that lead to a fearless heart.
Learn how to navigate fear with mindfulness and loving awareness.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:06.0	To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste, friends, welcome.
0:31.4	This is part two of our two talks on facing fear and I wanted to take a moment before our reflection together
0:40.1	a few comments from the vantage of 2025. You've probably noticed when you're greeting friends,
0:49.0	you might ask, well how are you doing given the world? There's this caveat, given the world,
0:56.0	or maybe I hope you're doing well in the midst of all this insanity. We have these kind of
1:02.8	shared understandings that, wow, it is pretty intense out there, a very charged, unhealthy, threatening atmosphere we're all living in.
1:14.9	One of the differences I've observed between those who are having a really hard time and those
1:21.7	who feel fear but have enough space for it, those who are struggling have the perception of going it alone.
1:30.3	In some way they're feeling more isolated in the midst of our devolving world.
1:37.3	I saw a cartoon some years ago of a woman in a mall and she's having a panic attack and she's saying, does
1:45.5	anyone have a Xanax? And in the next frame she is surrounded by a mob of willing strangers.
1:52.4	Everybody's offering her, their meds. And you know, we're just, we're not alone. Today's
2:00.2	reflection primarily has to do with the
2:04.3	inner ways of working with fear. But I've noticed that when I'm guiding groups, one of the
2:10.9	most healing elements people talk about is the recognition others are feeling this too. And here's the thing. Fear feeds on the sense
2:21.4	of our separation and it loses its power when we feel belonging to something larger. So as you
2:30.9	explore this week, if you're struggling with fear, I invite you, if you have a
2:36.5	trusted other that you haven't really talked to about whatever feels vulnerable, share how
2:44.3	fear is living through you. Just name it and invite that person to name what it's like for
2:49.3	them and create a shared space of care and presence
2:53.6	because we need to be real with each other. We don't need to get stuck in our fears and if we
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