Radical Compassion: Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing, Part 1

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 9 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 1, Tara explores:

How the RAIN practice weaves mindfulness and compassion to release self-judgment and awaken our hearts.
The story of the "golden Buddha" as a metaphor for discovering our inner radiance beneath protective layers.
The shift from "I" to "We" as an essential movement toward connection and wholeness.
The importance of self-compassion in transforming the trance of unworthiness and reconnecting with our true nature.
Practical ways to bring mindful presence to our daily lives and relationships, creating space for healing and growth.

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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, resolution to spend less time. and I've been reflecting on New Year's resolutions. I did read one that resonated.
0:38.6	This was a spider's resolution to spend less time on the web.
0:43.3	You can get that one.
0:44.3	That's part of my resolutions for the year.
0:49.1	I have to say that for me, it really is a valuable ritual,
0:52.9	to sense what matters in life and to use the framing
0:57.0	of a year to be more focused, more dedicated. And this year, as I've shared in a few other
1:04.0	places, my aspiration is towards a courageous kind of loving, a willingness to be vulnerable for the sake of a truly open heart.
1:14.6	It's a dedication to living from love.
1:17.6	And as some are aware, I hope, I'm offering a year-long program in that spirit, a year of courageous loving.
1:25.6	There's still time to register, so if this is something that
1:28.6	calls to you, please check my homepage for that. Whether you have a formal resolution or not
1:35.5	around loving, I'm imagining that all who are listening have a growing sense of wanting
1:43.7	to have an awake heart, to live from an awake heart.
1:47.2	And to that end, the talks for the next three weeks that I'm offering are a series on radical
1:53.8	compassion that include a very full, more nuanced introduction to the rain meditation.
2:03.3	Many are aware that rain, that acronym rain, it's a weave of mindfulness and compassion
2:09.4	that you can bring to difficulty.
2:11.9	And I have to say personally that it's not a technique that I can say, okay, I've been there,
2:16.8	done that one. It's more of a life
2:20.2	practice that gets deeper and deeper that we discover more and more ways that we subtly resist
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