Reflection: RAIN on Blame (2019-10-16)

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Reflection: RAIN on Blame - When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance - the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. This practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing the other with a more open and clear heart. By awakening from the trance of blame, we are able to respond with intelligence and care to the unmet needs that underlie all conflict.

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0:00.0	The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.7	To access more of my meditations or reflections or to join my email list, please visit
0:11.1	TaraBrock.com.
0:31.8	Whatever our habit is, whatever we practice really does get stronger, the grooves get deeper.
0:41.6	And it takes a really deep reflection and commitment to practice something different.
0:49.4	No matter how right you think you are, when you're in conflict, no matter how right,
0:55.3	it's still a trance that keeps you in a disempowered identity as a separate victimized self.
1:06.3	It makes you small.
1:07.5	And of course, it makes the other person small too.
1:11.4	So the invitation here is to deepen our attention in our own lives, each of us.
1:20.1	That if each of us right now who's here and who's listening leaned in that direction to wake up
1:28.6	out of that trance, to look towards unmet needs, we'd be creating ripples that really
1:37.3	can affect consciousness, that open us to a heart space that really can affect consciousness
1:44.0	in our world. So I'd like to explore our meditation now. We're going to do a rain on blame meditation.
1:55.3	Take a moment to invite yourself into presence and let your senses be awake.
2:00.3	Letting go where you can in your body, any tightness or tension.
2:15.4	Opening to sensations and aliveness inside you.
2:30.7	So we begin the practice of bringing rain to blame by identifying someone you care about
2:41.2	and with whom you're experiencing some distance, conflict or tension,
2:49.9	not full-blown antagonism.
3:01.0	And to help you get in touch, you might bring to mind a particular incident.
3:09.9	Remembering the visuals of whatever was going on, the space you were in,
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