Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom - Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true acceptance. This means meeting our unfolding life with an unconditional, open and tender presence. This talk on Radical Acceptance explores how the trance of unworthiness contracts us away from presence, and how activating mindfulness and self-compassion with RAIN loosens the grip of self-aversion and awakens our hearts.

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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.
0:30.6	Namaste friends and welcome.
0:33.7	I wanted to share with you that next year is the 20th anniversary of my first book, Radical
0:40.2	Acceptance.
0:41.8	And we're offering a new edition that will include a new chapter and also introduce
0:47.0	the rain practice.
0:49.2	So I'm in the thick of working on this and I continue to be moved in my own practice
0:54.9	and by working with others, moved by how essential the practice of radical acceptance is, how
1:04.0	in any moment that we truly aren't resisting, that we're truly opening to the life of the
1:10.0	moment, we have the capacity to love more fully and to realize that this mystery, this
1:21.5	vastness that's really what we are.
1:25.6	So in honor of the power of radical acceptance, I thought I'd offer a talk, revisiting these
1:34.0	teachings and I know for many of you this it will feel familiar and I hope for all of
1:40.5	you, it will be the kind of reminders that bring more of that vivid wakefulness and
1:49.4	openness and kindness to your moments and your life.
1:55.1	Okay, I hope you enjoy.
2:02.5	Namaste greetings friends.
2:06.8	A good number of years ago now, the Dalai Lama was interviewed by Network News and the
2:13.8	inquiry was really about happiness because that was the subject of his latest book and
2:18.8	they asked him a question which was what was your happiest moment in memory and his response
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