Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - Part 3: Joy – blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.4	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.6	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:34.0	Namaste and welcome friends.
0:37.2	Today we're on the third of a four week series of heart reflections and this one's on
0:44.3	joy.
0:46.3	And for some joy may seem like a kind of a far reach, not something experienced much
0:53.3	in daily life.
0:55.6	And what this, the hope of this talk is just to bring alive how possible it is really.
1:04.8	Just if we're cultivating presence, we're also cultivating this capacity for joy.
1:12.0	And these are the words of Julia Cameron.
1:14.6	She writes this.
1:15.6	She says the quality of life is in proportion always to the capacity for delight.
1:23.5	The quality of life is in proportion to the capacity for delight.
1:28.6	And the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
1:34.6	It's the gift of paying attention, which is what we're learning to do.
1:39.8	If we deepen attention, we find that we naturally start lowering the bar for delight for joy.
1:48.0	It doesn't have to be spectacular.
1:50.0	It can be moments for any of us.
1:53.3	Joy arises from the simplest experiences.
1:57.3	The spring green, the leaves or the scent of a flower, sometimes it's an exchange, a
2:05.7	friendly exchange with a stranger or just hearing a child's laugh at the taste of a strawberry,
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