Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle

Tara Brach

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

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Many are familiar with the Dali Lama's words "My religion is kindness." In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can learn to cherish one another. We talk about the relationship between boundaries and compassion; the unshakeable goodness at our core; how we belong to each other, and how judgments arise from delusion and blind us to the blessing of that belonging.

Father Greg Boyle is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world's largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program, author of several books, including Tattoos on the Heart; Barking to the Choir; and in 2023, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness.

Father Greg's life and work are a huge inspiration: he is dedicated to living from love and cultivating loving community with a marginalized population of ex inmates, gang members and their families. You can find out more about Father Greg and Homeboy Industries at: https://homeboyindustries.org/our-story/father-greg/

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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 Tarabck.com. Namaste, welcome my friends. Today I'll be having a conversation with Father Gregory Boyle. I just
0:37.0	connected with him personally this year, but I've been inspired by him and sharing his stories from his three wonderful books for years.
0:48.8	So Father Greg Boyle is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order and he's the founder and director of Home Boy
0:56.8	Industries which is the world's largest gang intervention and rehab program and as I mentioned he's author of several books.
1:04.5	The first one is Tattoos on the heart.
1:07.2	The second barking to the choir and the third,
1:09.8	the new one is the whole language, the power of extravagant tenderness.
1:16.9	Like those great words, extravagant tenderness.
1:21.5	If you saw my sticky notes, there's just so many good stories and quotes and he's very funny.
1:28.4	So it's just a great read and totally inspiring.
1:33.0	So, Father Greg is dedicated to living from love and cultivating a loving community
1:42.0	with marginalized population. In this case, these are ex-gang
1:46.3	members, most are ex-inmates, and really loving them into healing and the whole community the atmosphere of the community as you'll
1:56.5	hear from him really is a sense of that cherishing that loving into healing
2:08.8	I often think of the Dalai Lama saying, my religion is kindness. And as you'll see here, this is an expression of it that's not abstract.
2:14.0	It's gritty and real and beautiful because it embodies hope.
2:19.0	So I think you'll find a lot of richness and inspiration in this interview.
2:30.0	Okay, welcome, Father Greg. Thank you for being here again. Thank you. Honored to be with you.
2:38.8	So I just want to start by confessing, actually, to those that are listening that we had a prior and I thought really beautiful interview and I'm thinking maybe unconsciously I didn't record because I wanted to have more time with you, but who knows.
2:58.0	Here we are.
2:58.8	And so I thought maybe I'd start by asking a little bit about your personal background and I'm curious what first drew you to being a Jesuit priest?
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