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Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 24 November 2010

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

2010-11-24 - Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity - Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life--gratitude and generosity--includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Thank you!

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0:00.0

So it is, it kind of always has a special feel for me doing these the night before Thanksgiving

0:23.1

and I know for a number of people traveling having the courage to go on an airplane. There's

0:31.0

a sign at the airline ticket office in Copenhagen and it said, we take your bags and send them

0:37.8

in all directions. I thought that was great. So what I usually like to do is take this evening

0:48.9

given the season, it's a good holiday, this Thanksgiving holiday, the spirit of the intention

0:55.7

of it to give thanks and really explore what it means to live in a way that with a grateful

1:04.4

heart and with a generosity of spirit. And I actually feel like it's a talk on love

1:12.9

because those are just, those are expressions of love. So it's, this is a love night and not

1:18.6

as a virtue, but it's just an, it's an expression of who we are when we're fully, who we are. So I'll

1:24.9

do, as I sometimes do a reflection, I'll do several reflections, little kind of mini guided

1:31.4

meditations and we'll see what happens. One of the Indian teachers that's, yeah, very,

1:40.7

always drawn to no longer a live monindraji was asked by his students, so what is the purpose

1:48.7

of all these practices we're doing? And his response, and this is very much his character, he

1:56.0

says, to live the life fully. And I think that's a really beautiful way to describe it. And what

2:02.4

I'd like to do is we talk about gratitude and generosity. Is talk about it in terms of a little

2:09.7

bit with the breath that gratitude is just like breathing in when we're able to take in life,

2:15.9

when there's that quality of receptivity that allows for truly breathing in and taking the

2:21.8

nourishment from the air and from the field of this earth, we live, we live. We get touched, we

2:31.6

live. And when we can breathe out, when we can let what is ours be offered into the world, our

2:38.4

creativity, our intelligence, our talent, our love, that's generosity. So we'll kind of explore

2:45.2

with the breath because I found that the breath is actually the meditation on the breath can teach

2:50.3

us about everything. That's a big superlative statement, but teach us about a lot. So put it out

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