Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Part 3

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 46 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 3, Tara explores:

How the RAIN practice fosters compassion and connection by dismantling barriers to belonging.
The three primary blocks to compassion: self-centered attention, creating a "bad other," and fear of overwhelm.
How "stealth metta" and the mantra "We are friends" can soften our habitual biases and awaken kindness.
The transformative power of seeing the "goodness behind the mask" in ourselves and others.
The practice of Tonglen - breathing in suffering and breathing out care, to transform pain into a source of strength and connection.

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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 friends, welcome. This fall I was talking with a college professor I know teaches a course in
0:37.3	meditation and psychotherapy.
0:39.3	And it was nearing the end of the term and he had sent multiple messages to one student who had missed
0:45.3	several classes, hadn't hand in the required journals or papers, you know, sent these messages
0:51.3	to the student, do you need some help? Do you need extra time?
0:55.5	And finally, the message, if you don't hand in your papers, I can't pass you, got no response,
1:01.7	no acknowledgement of his emails. So when he talked to me about it, he was kind of processing
1:06.4	because he was feeling angry. He said, you know, he took it personally, in some way he felt
1:12.1	distrespected. Well, a couple of days after the deadline for the semester passed, he received
1:19.5	a note and it was from this student and the note said that the course had helped him in
1:25.1	his personal life beyond what he could express.
1:27.8	And then he went on to, you know, he shared his journals that had been part of the requirement
1:32.4	for the course and in the journals it described the struggle that he was going through
1:37.4	and his family was going through, especially around immigration and the threats that were
1:41.9	coming around the corner.
1:45.2	For this teacher it was a wake-up, actually a welcome wake-up, just so clear that it's
1:51.2	just not personal and clear that just to see more of the reality of another's human vulnerability,
2:00.3	how much that shifts things that
2:01.9	he could feel as caring, he could feel more whole in relating to the student.
2:08.0	You know, that phrase everyone we know is struggling hard.
2:13.0	And of course, there had to be some form of accountability and they needed to work out what
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