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Tara Brach

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times - When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation - disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other and the web of life. This talk explores four inquiries that help us reconnect with presence and heart. Rather than reacting with aggression or blame, these inquiries allow us to respond to our struggling world with our naturally wise and caring heart.

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0:00.0

Greetings.

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Namaste.

0:33.0

Welcome, friends.

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Many of you know of Dorothy Day, the Catholic Social Activist,

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and canonized saint.

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And one of the moments that shaped her life happened when she was eight years old,

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and she was a girl in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906,

0:58.0

and she was living in Oakland and watching people as they were emerging from the devastation.

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And she's noticing that all the adults around her just started caring for strangers

1:13.0

in a way she'd never seen before.

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And it's with that vision of a child.

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She sees that somehow they knew how to do this all along, and then she asks this question,

1:28.0

why can't we live this way all the time?

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Why can't we live this way all the time?

1:38.0

It feels like such a crucial question and aspiration,

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living from our full potential to love, from a sense of we, why not?

1:50.0

Her longing for a more loving world led to her founding the Catholic worker movement,

1:58.0

very dedicated to nonviolence, social justice, serving those in need.

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And my first exposure to spiritual life, it was in Worcester, Massachusetts,

2:10.0

I was 19 years old, and my friend Frank, who was a Catholic worker,

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