Self-Forgiveness

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 4 August 2010

⏱️ 46 minutes

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2010-08-04 - Holding ourselves with a compassionate, forgiving heart is the gateway to healing, and to intimacy with our world. This talk explores our deep conditioning to be at war with ourselves, and the insights and elements of forgiving that can carry us home to loving presence. Please donate at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Thank you!

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0:00.0	So I'd like to begin tonight's talk with a very well-known exchange from the Buddha
0:21.1	scriptures.
0:22.1	The Buddha once asked a student, if a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?
0:28.1	The student replied, it is.
0:30.7	The Buddha then asked, if the person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?
0:36.9	The student replied, again, it is.
0:39.3	The Buddha then explained, in life we cannot always control the first arrow.
0:44.9	However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first.
0:49.1	This second arrow is optional.
0:54.4	Some of you I'm hoping that this is familiar teaching.
0:57.9	The first arrow is when we're caught in unwanted emotions, when we get carried away by jealousy
1:05.7	or anger or caught in obsessive thinking or some sort of a compulsive behavior like over
1:13.2	eating or lashing out an anger, that's the first arrow.
1:17.1	No matter how much we think we should be able to control ourselves, if we could we would,
1:22.8	it just happens.
1:25.1	But rather than attending to the first arrow and often to the really deep wounding under,
1:31.0	it's sometimes trauma under the first arrow, what we do is we shoot ourselves again with
1:36.6	the arrow of self-blame.
1:38.3	Isn't that so?
1:40.9	Stuff happens that we really don't like about ourselves and we, and then we're just shooting
1:45.1	second arrow after second arrow after second arrow.
1:49.3	We really nail ourselves, so to speak.
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