Befriending Irene

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Befriending Irene - While Tara is away, this talk is from 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit us with fury. Dorian is now leaving its destruction behind, just as we work with our stormy weather within.

Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom–the mindfulness and compassion–that free you. This talk explores how the habit of being reactive causes us suffering and the ways these tools of meditation can be applied to the inner weather systems that most challenge us.

The flute meditation at the end of the talk is given by Akal Dev.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.6	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:24.1	One of the most notable things about this most recent experience with Irene, with our
0:32.3	friend Irene, was that there was an amazing amount of planned response. I mean, we had so much
0:38.5	warning that we were able to, in most parts of the region that were affected had a chance
0:45.7	to prepare. And of course, there were some that still got very terribly hit. Not always
0:52.0	the case with intense weather systems. There are quakes and tsunamis. And other things are we
0:57.7	don't have a chance to prepare. And it's also true in our inner life that things happen to us.
1:05.5	We have accidents or problems with our health or financial difficulties or loved ones, things that
1:12.5	happen. And there's not really a chance to prepare ourselves. And instead of that readiness,
1:19.9	which really makes a difference in our life, quality of presence and readiness that really can
1:24.9	handle, we flip into reactivity. And I'd like to share one of my best examples on this.
1:32.9	This is a man who's responding to a request from an insurance company for more information.
1:39.2	He says in response to your quest for additional information in block three of the accident
1:43.8	and report form, I put in poor planning as the cause of my accident. You said in your letter,
1:49.3	I should explain more fully. I trust the following details will be sufficient. I'm a brick layer by
1:55.8	trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six story building. When
2:01.7	I completed my work, I discovered that I had 500 pounds of bricks left. Rather than carrying them down
2:08.4	by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel attached to the side of the building, securing the
2:12.9	rope at ground level. I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the brick onto it.
2:18.4	Then I went back to the ground and untied the rope holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of
2:23.3	the 500 pounds of bricks. You will note in block number 11 of the accident report form that I weigh
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