Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:29.3	Namaste and welcome friends. It's good to be with you.
0:34.6	So our reflection today is on purposefully cultivating loving kindness.
0:41.2	And in composing, I was remembering, I was probably my first
0:46.6	introduction and I happened to be in a yoga class. I was 19 years old.
0:51.9	And the yoga teachers said, put your right arm over your left
0:56.2	and hug yourself. And we did that. And then she said, and put your left arm
1:01.5	over your right and hug your evil twin.
1:07.2	Well, so we all thought that was pretty comical. And also as it turns out,
1:11.6	it was quite valuable to embrace ourselves in those ways.
1:16.8	Many of you are familiar with the poly word meta. And meta is very central
1:23.6	in Buddhist teachings. It means loving kindness. It means friendliness and
1:28.7	navelance. One with meta has unconditional goodwill
1:35.2	towards all. And so meta is this heart energy of warmth and openness and
1:44.0	brightness that really awakens as we realize our belonging to each other
1:51.3	and to all of life. So I really love the origin story really.
1:58.7	When the Buddha first taught meta to the monks that were with them,
2:04.9	and they had been out in the forest meditating, and they had encountered these
2:11.8	tree spirits. And these tree spirits had been offended by the presence of the
2:17.7	monks. They felt kind of invaded. And so they tried to scare them off and were
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