Realizing Your Deepest Intention

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart.

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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.
0:29.5	I'm a stay welcome and all blessings as you enter this new year.
0:34.9	For many, the new year begins with a kind of sense of resolution, kind of reviewing
0:41.0	the past, looking into the future, sensing the landscape of life, and people recommit
0:46.2	to whatever they think might bring increased health or happiness.
0:53.4	Sometimes it has to do with daily habits of food or sleep or self-care.
0:58.3	Some people choose a single word, like love or beauty or gratitude, just a filter to
1:07.8	keep remembering.
1:09.9	And often on the spiritual path, it's an opportunity really to deepen dedication to
1:16.6	awakening the heart and the mind.
1:19.5	I love the way the Zen Masters put it, that the most important thing is remembering the
1:25.9	most important thing.
1:28.1	So I hope this reflection serves you in that way.
1:33.7	Number stay welcome and always a welcome to those that are with us on live stream.
1:42.6	We begin tonight with a story that comes from a long time ago before any of us was born.
1:49.0	Good King who wanted to ensure that there was an heir to his kingdom.
1:53.8	He didn't have any children.
1:55.2	He was growing old.
1:57.1	But being a democratic sort, a kind of a egalitarian guy, instead of just choosing someone, he decided
2:04.2	he'd invite anybody that was interested in the job to come to the kingdom.
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