The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

The Namaste and welcome.

Welcome to all that are here.

Welcome those that have joined us live stream.

This is the third of a series of talks that I've given on radical compassion.

And they're drawn from themes that are in my new book.

As I mentioned earlier, it's coming out December 29th.

And I've given a focus on really in the book the practice of rain

and how this practice of mindfulness and compassion can help us bring a real intimacy

and love to our inner life and how it can help us to wake up through conflicts

or any distance with each other.

And then in a really deep way, how radical compassion can help us wake up the heart space

that really includes our world so that we actively engage and care.

Because it feels like that is the medicine we need right now.

So this is, as I mentioned the third, and if you didn't hear the first and the second of these talks,

you can go to my website at starabrock.com and you can downstream it that way.

The way I wanted to start tonight is with a story that to me really captures the spirit of radical compassion

that inspired by Jarvis Masters for many years.

He's a longtime prisoner and meditator.

As the story goes, he was in the exercise yard in San Quentin.

When one young inmate was about to throw a stone at a pigeon.

And now the unspoken rule in the yard is mind-drawn business.

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