Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life.

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.
0:04.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.9	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:32.9	Namaste friends.
0:34.0	Welcome.
0:35.9	I was reflecting last week on what we might explore together and I'm just so aware that
0:43.0	the pace of change in our world with it, it's just difficult to keep up with it all.
0:51.2	There's so much of a grip of crisis and trauma and many are horrified by the violence in
0:59.1	this world, the suffering and how it's playing out just energetically in our own lives, feeling
1:04.6	the grief, the fears, the uncertainty in our nervous systems.
1:10.9	So as I mentioned, I was reflecting on what can really help us ground ourselves, keep
1:16.4	our hearts open, be awake during these times.
1:21.3	And what came to mind was a poem from the poetha face.
1:25.4	He writes this.
1:26.4	He says, the subject tonight is love and for tomorrow night as well.
1:33.0	As a matter of fact, I know no better topic for us all to discuss until we all die.
1:44.6	So I took the cue from a face and what I'd like to do is invite you to join me in a four
1:50.2	part series of talks and reflections on different facets of love.
1:55.8	In Buddhism, this series is called the Brahma Vaharas are the divine abodes and their
2:01.6	loving kindness is the first, then compassion, then sympathetic joy, and then equanimity,
2:08.4	which is the quality of mind and presence that actually makes all the flavors of mature
2:13.6	love possible.
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