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Tara Brach

Cultivating Compassion

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 6 June 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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2012-06-06 - Cultivating Compassion - We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to include widening circles of beings in our heart. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations make a difference!

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0:00.0

This talk tonight is part of a four week series. I began last week with love,

0:22.2

loving kindness, loving presence. The four together are sometimes described as

0:28.0

the divine abodes and they are love, compassion, joy, and equanimity. So tonight is

0:38.6

about compassion and it's really the inquiry that a lot of us have you know what

0:45.6

helps us to awaken our heart, what helps to cultivate a compassionate heart.

0:52.9

Part of what I'm finding really interesting is that in the last maybe five years that inquiry has

1:00.8

moved from the you know just the spiritual and religious communities into the larger culture

1:07.2

in a very active and immediate way. It's become a real secular kind of inquiry and I'm unaware of it

1:13.6

in I have many friends that are involved with conflict resolution, with mediation,

1:18.4

how alive it is there, how the criticalness of having this capacity for empathy and compassion

1:27.1

and of course it's in so much communications, nonviolent communications in education and psychotherapy

1:34.2

as you know. I mean in psychotherapy if you look at what's really going on with ourselves in the

1:42.5

world there's no healing, there's no healing without this capacity to soften and widen a heart,

1:53.5

make it more inclusive. Sometimes think of that there's a Gary Larson cartoon and there's two

2:01.6

women that are hiding behind a locked door and they're kind of peering out through a window and

2:06.6

one of them is saying to the other calm down Edna yes it is a giant hideous insect but it might

2:15.0

be a giant hideous insect in need of help you know. And there's some sense that you know if we can

2:23.3

see past the initial presentation of ourselves of each other and get that whenever somebody is

2:33.2

behaving in a way that doesn't appeal to us it usually has to do with an unmet need that

2:42.2

there's some cry for help. So we're seeing as I mentioned in the secular world there's research labs

2:51.3

at tons and tons of major institutions I'm thinking right now of Harvard and University of Wisconsin

2:59.0

at Stanford I'll give you an example there's a research lab there but there's also here's a

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