Radical Acceptance Revisited (2015-08-12)

Tara Brach

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

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Radical Acceptance Revisited (2015-08-12) - One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can't feel love and connection with our world. This talk looks at the genesis of the "Trance of Unworthiness" and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness can dissolve the trance and reveal the loving awareness that is our essence Being.

Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at http://www.tarabrach.com/donate.html. With thanks and love, Tara

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.9	Namaste and welcome. A number of years ago, the Dalai Lama was here for a mind-life conference,
0:33.6	a gathering of scientists and researchers, teachers and the like that we're all, this is really
0:40.5	when the beginning of affirming some of the benefits of meditation was really taking root.
0:49.3	And at one point he was interviewed by network news because his latest book on happiness had come out.
0:57.1	And the question they asked him was, well, what was the happiest moment of your life?
1:03.5	And he thought for a little while and he gave that he has a mischievous look he goes and he said,
1:10.0	I think now. And to me it was perfect because really the gift of meditation is to be able to really
1:22.6	be right here in the one place, the one moment where we can truly experience happiness and love
1:32.2	and creativity where we can truly see the nature of reality. So the challenge is that most of the time
1:42.2	we have this really deep conditioning to not be here, to be on our way somewhere else.
1:49.2	It's often in the form of lost and bought. We're thinking that generally the most important moment
1:56.9	of our life is either ahead or it's already happened. But it's rare that we think this moment really
2:02.7	matters. This is it. Right here, this moment. So it's really an interesting inquiry, what is it that
2:12.7	takes us away so regularly from present? And if we begin to check through the day and saying,
2:21.9	okay, what's going on here? We'll find that much of a time we're in a trance of thinking,
2:29.5	we're kind of living in a virtual reality. We're not awake in our senses right here. And that in
2:37.1	that virtual reality there's an undercurrent of I want something or I'm fearing something.
2:43.0	There's wants and fears. There's a sense of something's missing. Something's not quite right.
2:48.2	And that drives the thinking. And if we really check closely, we'll find that right at the core of our
2:57.9	thinking trance is some assumption that what's wrong is ourself, that we're not right. That's something's
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.