Living with Courageous Presence

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Living with Courageous Presence - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the ways we resist opening to vulnerability, and three key steps in cultivating a courageous presence.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:18.5	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.0	I'd like to explore in this particular talk what it means to live from a courageous presence,
0:37.0	how to get in touch with our courage and live from it.
0:41.1	Traditionally as many of you know, courage has been linked to our response when we're facing
0:48.2	great external danger.
0:51.4	In one story, there's a great sea captain who's walking on his ship when a soldier rushes
0:58.2	to a medic exclaims that an enemy ship is approaching and captain replies, very calmly,
1:05.7	go get my red shirt.
1:09.3	The soldier does it and the enemy ship comes and there's these heavy rounds of fire exchanged
1:14.8	and finally they win.
1:18.1	And the soldier says, congratulations sir, but why the red shirt and the captain replies,
1:23.4	well, if I got injured, my blood shouldn't be seen as I wouldn't want my men to lose hope.
1:30.5	Just then another soldier runs up and says, sir, we just spotted another 20 enemy ships
1:36.0	and the captain calmly replies, go bring my yellow pants.
1:45.1	So courage.
1:46.4	Okay.
1:47.4	I'm not sure if that was the best way to start this talk or not, but you got the idea.
1:55.7	So if we look at true courage, to me one of the most wonderful teaching stories comes from
2:01.9	the songs of Melorepa and if you haven't heard about Melorepa, use a Buddhist Tibetan
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