From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

From Dragons to Schmoos: Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence - The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that are a deeply conditioned part of the human experience. In this talk we explore the awakening that is possible as we recognize our reactive patterns and instead of judgment, offer a loving and healing presence (a favorite from the archives).

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.1	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.3	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.2	Namaste.
0:31.2	Welcome.
0:32.2	I often reflect that we were wounded in relationship and have to heal in relationship and that includes
0:39.4	our relationship with our inner life of course.
0:43.3	And most of us don't have the habit of holding our own being with tenderness.
0:50.0	And yet this is really essential in healing and freeing the heart.
0:55.3	So as I couldn't offer a new talk this week, I chose one from the archives that addresses
1:01.0	us that really guides us in loving ourselves into healing.
1:07.3	So I hope this resonates and I hope it supports you on your path.
1:11.2	Blessings.
1:12.2	Namaste and welcome.
1:17.4	Like to begin by sharing a story I heard when Romdos who many of you might know as the
1:24.4	author be here now and a real icon in this generation's spiritual world.
1:32.4	Well Romdos was in DC 12 years ago maybe more.
1:38.4	And he described how when he first started practice, when he first started praying and
1:45.1	meditating and so on it was probably 40 years before that.
1:48.6	He said I was filled with judgment and craving and anger and impatience.
1:55.6	And now after decades of a whole range of spiritual practices he says, I'm still filled with
2:02.1	anger and rage and craving and impatience.
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