Being Truthful - How Honesty Nourishes Love

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Being Truthful - How Honesty Nourishes Love - The grounds of happiness, loving relationships and a just and flourishing society is honesty. And yet our current times are characterized by a plethora of deception – both societally, and often in more subtle ways, in our personal lives. This talk examines the deep conditioning we have to deceive others, and to avoid facing and acknowledging our own vulnerability. We then explore how we can commit ourselves to deepening our truth telling, and in so doing, creating a climate of integrity and trust that can lead to a more compassionate world (from the 2017 archives).

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0:00.0	Greetings.
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0:26.2	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.3	I'd like to start our shared reflection tonight with a tale that I heard through Michael
0:38.0	Meade.
0:39.0	He's a storyteller and it's considered a fable for today and it begins with a child who's
0:45.1	playing with a ball and he's bitten by a poisonous snake.
0:49.0	And by the time the parents have arrived, the venom has spread to the little child's
0:53.8	unconscious.
0:54.8	And with no doctor near, they carry him to a local monk and implore the holy man to
1:01.2	save the youngster.
1:02.8	The monk declares that he's not the kind of religious person who knows how to heal.
1:08.2	In desperation, the parents plead that someone on a spiritual path must have the power to
1:13.0	perform an act of truth that can reverse the course of the poison.
1:18.5	The monk replies that he says that the only truth he knows of his own life is this and
1:24.1	he places his hand on the child's head.
1:26.2	He then reveals that he's long before lost any sense of true holiness and only kept
1:32.0	up a saintly appearance while secretly longing for the pleasures of the world.
1:37.8	No sooner had this act of truth been made than the eyes of the child opened again.
1:43.6	The holy man insisted that the father use his power to tell a truth that could remove
1:48.0	more poison.
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