Divine Abodes: Joy

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 26 October 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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2011-10-26 - Divine Abodes: Joy - Joy is an innate capacity, an expression of unconditional presence with life. Yet for many, it is blocked by our conditioning to grasp after life and to defend against loss. This talk explores how we can develop the selfless presence that allows for joy, and nourish that joy so it blossoms in our life. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donation makes a difference! Thank you!

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0:00.0	For the last few weeks we've been exploring what are called the Brahma Vaharas, and that's
0:21.3	a word meaning the divine abodes, or this is the places that our hearts and minds live
0:27.8	when we're really awake. And so the first one of the divine abodes is loving kindness and
0:36.4	the second compassion. These are the two that we already explored. They arise when we're
0:42.3	paying attention to the nature of reality. When we open ourselves to what is, if we open
0:49.8	ourselves up to goodness and beauty, then loving kindness naturally arises. If we open
0:58.9	ourselves up to suffering, to pain, and we're really open, then compassion arises. We feel
1:06.1	a sense of our innate connectedness and natural response of wanting to be helpful. Joy, which
1:14.8	is Mudita is the word Impali. This is the third of the Brahma Vaharas. Arrises when we're open
1:22.6	to both the beauty and the suffering. So it's characterized. Joy is characterized by two things.
1:31.3	It's characterized by a full openness. Joy is very, very expensive. It's very, very inclusive.
1:39.1	It's that yes to life no matter what. And joy is very embodied. It's experiencing that
1:48.7	aliveness right here in this human body. So that if we're mental, we might have a really nice
1:56.0	feeling, but it's not that fullness, that whole hardness of joy. So we're going to explore joy
2:03.5	tonight. And Mudita, the word that means joy, sympathetic joy, is joy for this aliveness, joy for
2:14.0	this awakening, this happening, and joy for the joy of others. It's this recognition that we're
2:21.9	innately connected with each other. So when we experience this aliveness of joy, it includes
2:28.2	incredible celebration when another is experiencing joy. I'd like to start with a quote that I love
2:38.0	from Andre Guid. Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness.
2:47.9	Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
2:55.6	So it's powerful words. And just to say, it starts by saying it's rarer. And when I talk to people
3:06.4	about joy and just start, you know, inquiring. So what's your experience like? How much do you
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