Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 2 (2016-03-02)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 5 March 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Bodhichitta - The Awakened Heart - Part 2 (2016-03-02)
While the brightness and warmth of our hearts is always here, like the sun when blocked by clouds, our intrinsic love can be obscured. These two talks explore how we become arrested in a confining story of separate self, and how remembering love releases us from this trance. The first talk emphasizes inner pathways of freeing our heart and the second talk explores awakening bodhichitta actively in relating with each other.
"To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten." Arne Garborg
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:06.6 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really matters. |
| 0:12.4 | To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. |
| 0:28.9 | Namaste and welcome. |
| 0:32.6 | So this talk and reflection is part two of a series on Bodhi Chita. |
| 0:39.6 | And Bodhi Chita literally means awakening, being heart-mind. |
| 0:46.1 | Chita heart-mind in the Asian script, |
| 0:48.9 | they really consider the same. |
| 0:51.3 | And it's about love and really refers |
| 0:56.8 | to the many flavors of love. |
| 0:58.4 | It could be the love that we experience |
| 1:00.6 | and we're holding a newborn infant |
| 1:03.9 | or when we're accompanying a beloved who's dying |
| 1:08.1 | or it could be the love, the affection that just surges up |
| 1:12.3 | and we're with a pet or when we're seeing some sort of beauty |
| 1:16.3 | or when a friend is experiencing loss. |
| 1:19.1 | There's all these flavors of the heart |
| 1:22.6 | responding with tenderness that the common denominator |
| 1:27.6 | is the falling away of a sense of a separateness |
| 1:31.9 | and a feeling of belonging to this field of aliveness. |
| 1:38.8 | And a bodhisattva, that's an awakening being, |
| 1:42.9 | is a being who lives out of Bodhi Chita. |
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