Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing

Tara Brach

Tara, Dharma, Selfhelp, Talks, Spiritual, Buddhist, Insight, Audio, Tarabrach, Mindfulness, Rain, Psychology, Compassion, Vipassana, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Meditation, Guided, Brach, Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

2012-03-14 - Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing - This line from poet Galway Kinnell reminds us of the possibility of meeting our inner life with a loving, healing presence. When we do, we loosen the trance of unworthiness and reconnect with our intrinsic goodness. In turn, we can offer our blessings to others--serving as reminders of the awareness and love that can blossom in all beings. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Imagine if even 10% of listeners gave $10 a month? The audio could be self-supporting!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ten years ago or so I was completing the book Radical Acceptance and this was around
0:23.3	the time that yoga and meditation, I think of yoga as a form of meditation, were beginning
0:29.9	to really gain some acceptance. There was more and more around in the culture that was
0:36.3	saying, oh, this has benefits. So even though it went against the current in some ways,
0:42.9	there was more of an embrace. And I remember somebody sending to me this little cartoon
0:48.0	and it had a group of bats and they're all hanging from the top of a cave and they discover
0:53.7	a single bat is standing on, below them on the floor of the cave. So they're surprised
0:59.0	of course by this unusual behavior and they ask, well, what's wrong with you? You know,
1:03.8	what are you doing down there? And the standing bat answers, yoga. And of course, in the meditation
1:14.2	community, there was always that phrase, don't just do something, sit there, you know. It's
1:21.8	goes against this culture that is so active, so busy and it's gotten a lot more again over
1:30.9	this last ten, fifteen years, very much a part of the culture so that now the message that we
1:38.2	explore so often, you find in the psychotherapy world and education and other domains, which is
1:47.5	simply if we want to be happy, if we want to have some real clarity, if we want to have some real
1:54.0	piece, we need to learn how to come into the present moment. That's simple and that is really
2:02.2	huge and radical and it's actually something that no longer sounds so wild, so exotic. It's like,
2:10.2	okay, there's the message that this begins with our inner life. We have to come into the present
2:18.2	moment and be able to be with what's here. People go, yeah, that sounds right and then there's that
2:24.2	message of being with what here means being with what's here with some sense of presence and
2:29.8	kindness and people go, yeah, that sounds good. And it is so difficult for many of us to actually
2:38.0	come into the moment and regard our inner life with the quality of compassion. It's so difficult.
2:47.6	So that, of course, spurred me onto, that was the reason I wrote radical acceptance, was this
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.