Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield

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🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and meditation, the centrality of acceptance, and the pathways of remembrance that reveal our belonging to this world and open us to caring. Jane’s most recent book is “The Asking: New and Selected Poems” and the interview includes readings from this beautiful collection. Order your copy of "The Asking" at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715681/the-asking-by-jane-hirshfield/

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.4	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.4	Namaste, welcome friends.
0:33.4	So I'm joined today by a special guest, a new friend and a long time inspiration,
0:40.0	Jane Hirschfield. And Jane's a renowned poet. I know many of you know of her.
0:46.1	A quote from Wikipedia, among the modern masters writing some of the most important poetry
0:53.7	in the world today. She's won many awards and for poems, for essays. And it's really
1:01.6	considered one of the American poetry central spokesperson for the biosphere. I love that,
1:07.9	that language spokesperson for the biosphere. So she's a visiting artist among neuroscientists,
1:14.7	a long time Zen practitioner. And as you'll see if you're not familiar, her poems are sourced in
1:22.6	a beautiful deep wisdom and a passionate love of our world. So wholehearted welcome to you, Jane.
1:31.1	Well, thank you. I am so happy to be speaking with you.
1:35.9	Yes, I thought I'd just jump in right with your words reading.
1:41.9	Jane writes, I've been given this existence these years on this earth to accept what has come
1:49.3	into my lifetime. Wars, loves, trucks, betrayals, kindness. I must take them. I must find a way to
1:58.6	live in this world. You can't refuse it. And along with the difficult is the radiant, the beautiful,
2:06.0	the intimacy with which each one of us enters the life of us of all of us and figures out what is
2:14.7	our conversation. What is my responsibility? What must be suffered? What can be changed? How can I
2:23.4	meet this in a way which both lets me open my eyes the next day and also perhaps if I'm lucky
2:31.9	can be of service? So I wanted to start here. You know, I was really struck by it and remembered
2:40.8	back to my very first retreat where the realization was that the boundary to what I can accept
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