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Tara Brach

Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The ritual of Namaste – bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others – helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home.

 

In this talk, Tara explores 

  • the sacred meaning of “Namaste” as a living practice—an invitation to see past the masks we wear and honor the light and goodness in all beings.
  • how our “spacesuit self”—a conditioned identity shaped by fear and separation—can obscure our true nature, and how mindfulness can awaken us to our shared spirit.
  • the pain of forgetting our basic goodness, and how suffering itself can be a portal—a chrysalis—guiding us back to presence, compassion, and spiritual belonging.
  • powerful stories of transformation, revealing how turning toward love and seeing the sacred in one another—even amidst deep harm—can open the way for healing and connection.
  • intentional practices to cultivate reverence, including mindful reflection, appreciation, and the embodied offering of Namaste as a path to awakening and collective healing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

0:06.0

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste, welcome, friends.

0:30.9

I am back recently from holiday with family, including my grandchildren, my two granddaughters, who happened to both

0:41.2

believe in fairies. And it reminded me of the story of a woman who describes her seven-year-old

0:49.0

saying to her, are you the tooth fairy? And it was after another tooth had fallen out, and the woman says, you know, I wasn't sure

0:57.7

whether or not to end this magical part of childhood.

1:01.5

But since she asked, I thought, yeah, this is time.

1:04.3

So I let her know she was right, and she seemed to handle the information in a mature way.

1:11.0

Several hours later, she took my hands in hers and said, Mama, so what I want to know is,

1:16.9

how do you get into the other kids' houses?

1:22.8

And I love that because, you know, I found for myself and many find this one of the gifts of being

1:29.0

with children and for me, my grand, it's just so much easier to see spirit, you know, see the wonder,

1:37.4

the light, the aliveness that really lives through them. I mean, their egos and personalities are totally there,

1:47.2

but they're just not so solid.

1:49.4

That inner purity shines through.

1:54.5

So, of course, when that happens,

1:57.6

when we really see so directly this basic goodness,

2:04.3

the loving flows so strong, so deep,

2:12.4

so true. So I returned and I wanted to share this talk from the archives. I did it a few years back. It's called namaste, which is namaste, seeing each other's light. And if we're honest with ourselves

2:22.7

in daily life, we see each other more through this kind of egoic lens. We see the coverings,

2:30.7

you know, the things about them that draws so that we don't like. You know, we see personality

2:35.7

and intelligence or failures or successes, body, level of attractiveness. To perceive really essence,

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