Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence - If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores how, when we’re reacting from anger, clinging or fear, to pause, reconnect to the immediate experience of “just this” and remember the love and awareness that has room for the changing waves of life.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:25.5	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.3	The night's talk is one that I chose from the archives.
0:31.5	It's on equanimity and especially with our globe and such crisis, thinking of the Russian
0:39.3	invasion of Ukraine and also more broadly, whole populations threatened by famine, violence.
0:49.3	It just seems crucial that we have a way of finding some balance, some inner clarity and
0:55.7	presence and perspective in the midst, so really that we can respond to our world from
1:01.9	care.
1:03.4	So my hope is that you'll find these teachings and practices on equanimity of value on
1:11.3	your path in your immediate and personal life and then your life as part of a very challenged
1:20.6	and struggling world.
1:23.3	Thank you.
1:26.5	Namaste and welcome.
1:27.6	It's very nice to be with you and I share to begin with a cartoon that I got recently
1:35.5	that I found really easy to relate to and it was of two mice and each of the mice is
1:42.2	on its own spinning wheel and one is frantically moving and the other one is just sitting
1:48.0	at the bottom of the wheel looking very relaxed and at peace.
1:52.1	Of course the caption is from that one, I had an epiphany.
1:57.3	So what was the epiphany?
1:59.4	And to me the epiphany is like this amazingly valuable reminder that we forget regularly
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