Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves (retreat talk) (2015-10-11)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2015
⏱️ 65 minutes
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(Retreat talk) Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves (2015-10-11) - In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. I'm Tara Brock and I'd like to welcome you to these podcasts. While the talks |
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| 0:30.0 | So I was just noticing the altar here and we have a second basket we had such an overflowing |
| 0:47.8 | metaphor with a lovely sense of the spirit of the gathering here. So from the groups today, |
| 0:58.3 | one of the things that become so apparent, and it's really one of the gifts of retreat, is that |
| 1:05.5 | less distractions and more intention about presence and it really shines a light for so many of us |
| 1:14.6 | on how we're leaving ourselves. I know you've noticed that for so many reports. We just start |
| 1:22.6 | watching and recognizing how many moments we're off trying to in some way solve a problem or |
| 1:30.4 | rerunning something in the past that didn't work out right, you know, kind of a fixating on |
| 1:35.1 | difficulty or how many moments we're judging and it earns some way finding a way to distract ourselves. |
| 1:44.4 | One of my favorite lines from the Indian teacher, Srinar Sargadatta, is that the mind creates the |
| 1:55.7 | abyss and the heart crosses it. The mind creates the abyss and the activity of the mind creates that |
| 2:06.2 | sense of separateness, it separates us and then the heart crosses it, the heart reminds us of |
| 2:14.6 | the synate belonging and it feels so true that our mind and by mind I mean the habitual |
| 2:24.0 | fear thinking that goes on disconnects us from our bodies and it disconnects us from that felt |
| 2:31.6 | sense of relatedness with each other and from our earth. So really so much of the healing, |
| 2:40.1 | you know, in our own body minds and in our relationships and really the healing of our planet |
| 2:48.6 | really comes back to I think of it as the feminine archetype, as these heart qualities that perceive |
| 2:59.2 | unity, belonging and are most expressed through compassion, through love. But that's what we |
| 3:08.4 | weaves us. So tonight in a sense this talk is dedicated to the feminine archetype, the bodhisattva |
| 3:18.9 | of compassion, that's really the awakening heart in each of us. It's dedicated to that and what |
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