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River of Change - Part 2 - Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life (2017-10-11)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

River of Change - Part 2 - Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life (2017-10-11) - These two talks look at how we relate to change - especially the notable changes involving loss of relationships and our own body and mind. We examine our strategies for avoiding uncertainty and fear; the consequences of resisting reality; our refuges of presence and compassion in the face of grief; and the gifts of opening fully to the river of change.

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0:00.0

Greetings.

0:05.2

We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

0:10.4

To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.

0:25.6

Welcome and Namaste.

0:29.2

Our last class was on the really opening to this river of change, talk on impermanence.

0:37.4

And we're going to continue with the teaching that really as we open to change, we discover

0:44.5

an open-heartedness that the more we are able to open to the challenges and beauty and

0:55.1

unfolding of our life, the more we sense the who we are beyond

0:59.1

the changes.

1:00.6

We kind of come into a sense of really what we might call the timeless.

1:07.1

And so as you know, opening to the river of change includes opening to the deepest losses.

1:14.6

And that's really we're going to focus in tonight really how to open to grief and to the

1:21.9

pain of separation.

1:25.2

And you might hear that and be thinking, okay, here we go.

1:29.2

And it's a heavy ride and all that.

1:31.4

And one friend I was just talking to said, well, the bad news is with loss and grieving

1:36.5

is you have to go through it.

1:39.1

And the good news is you can go through it.

1:41.6

And there is buried in grief a love that is totally sacred.

1:49.8

So there is a gift to this very natural process of opening to loss that will be exploring.

1:57.2

And I'd like to start with a story that I love.

2:00.4

And in this story, a troubled widow or makes his way to talk to a wise old woman about

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