Part 2 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Drawn from Tara’s book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Through the framework of this practice, we look at how we can reconnect with the gold of our true nature, navigating life’s challenges with mindfulness and love.

In Part 2, Tara explores:

How unmet needs and emotional reactivity block authentic connection in relationships.
The "limbic controller" and its strategies, such as blame, avoidance, and pretending, that create distance in relationships.
The transformative power of the RAIN practice in healing relational patterns and fostering deeper intimacy.
The importance of recognizing the "goodness behind the mask" in ourselves and others to bridge separation.
Stories and reflections that illustrate the healing potential of Radical Compassion in even the most challenging relationships.

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. So today's part two on the series on radical compassion.
0:35.6	And I think of compassion as this felt tenderness for the suffering within ourselves, within
0:43.6	others in our world.
0:46.2	It's a natural capacity we humans have.
0:49.6	And yet, if we're honest, it's often abstract.
0:53.1	It's often more mental than real. But here's the thing, it's often abstract, it's often more mental than real.
0:56.0	But here's the thing, it's like a muscle cultivating compassion, that the more you practice,
1:03.0	the more it becomes full and embodied.
1:07.5	And with that fullness, there's a direct sense of connecting with others, of opening, of caring.
1:14.7	It actually brings joy.
1:17.0	Compassion brings joy.
1:18.7	And there's research demonstrating this that when compassion is aroused, it correlates
1:24.3	with the activation of pleasure centers in the brain, it's not easy.
1:31.6	It takes practice and intention because we have a discomfort opening to vulnerability. We have a
1:39.3	reflex to close off, to turn away. So it does take intentionality. For instance, let's say we have a
1:47.6	friend struggling with fear about something in their life. It's a decision to deepen our
1:53.3	attention and sense what it's like for that person, what it is they're afraid of and how
1:58.8	that might feel. Or let's say there's a group we read about in the news that's suffering.
2:04.6	It takes being on purpose to say, well, what would it be like to be living with that?
2:11.6	Or let's say we sent into our own wounds or hurts, our loneliness, our fear.
2:20.3	It takes a kind of willingness to say, ouch, this hurts.
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