For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings

Tara Brach

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4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together.

Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media and is founder of lovedog.com, and Drew Webster, a dog behavior consultant par excellence.

In this recording, Tara is being interviewed for their podcast and found herself deeply impacted by the conversation. She reports that she and her 6-month-old pup, Niki, play more. Her attention has deepened and she is more awake in their relationship, and of course that extends out to the world of relationships.

So whether you have a dog, cat, favorite tree, or human to practice on, bringing attention to interbeing means more belonging, aliveness, and love. lovedog.com

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.0	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namst day.
0:34.8	Day. Greetings, my friends, thank you for being here.
0:44.0	Mary Oliver has a book of poems, it's called Dog Songs, and I would like to share one with you.
0:50.0	Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He slept all night under the covers,
0:52.0	now he's eager for action, a walk, then breakfast.
0:55.9	So I hasten up.
0:57.5	He's sitting on the kitchen counter where he's not supposed to be.
1:02.3	How wonderful you are, I say, how clever if you needed me to wake me up.
1:09.3	He thought he would hear a lecture and deeply his eyes began to shine. He tumbles onto the couch for more
1:16.2	compliments. He squirms and squeals. He has done something that he needed and now he
1:22.3	hears that it's okay.
1:25.0	I scratch his ears, I turn him over and touch him everywhere.
1:28.0	He is wild with the okayness of it.
1:32.0	Then we walk, then he has breakfast, and he is happy.
1:38.3	This is a poem about Percy. This is a poem about more than Percy. Think about it.
1:47.0	So the focus today is on our relationships with dogs and it's on more than our relationship with dogs.
2:00.0	You might think of it as what Tiknot Han called inter-being.
2:06.2	What happens when we widen our attention from
2:11.0	self, a separate self, to who we are in our togetherness and to the space of true okayness of
2:20.0	acceptance and love that can unfold when we deepen presence together.
2:25.5	So I'll be sharing an interview of me by two new friends for, they ran this for their podcast called Love Dog. The interviewers are Mark Druker who's an animal
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