Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame (2020-05-06)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame (2020-05-06) - A key way stress disconnects us from ourselves and each other is through the limbic reactivity of blame. This talk helps us to recognize the suffering of chronic blame, resentment and anger, and to bring a healing presence to the vulnerability that underlies blame.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.2	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:14.7	Namaste and welcome. So I'm really glad to be with you for our next talk in the Sheltering
0:33.3	in Love series. And I'm aware as we go through these weeks of global crisis that periods of
0:41.7	intensity of great stress seem to activate us in two different ways. One is that our survival
0:48.6	brain gets triggered and of course that comes with fear and aggression and self-protection.
0:56.5	And the same stress and real disruptions in our world and in our personal world, the losses
1:03.6	can be a time of amazing learning, fresh perspective and real spiritual growth, real spiritual
1:11.2	awakening. We start to see what are considered the real great truths or insights of impermanence
1:19.2	that this life is fragile, that it comes and goes and that brings up this tenderness or care in
1:27.3	our hearts. We remember what matters and it helps us to open, open in that caring. So for many,
1:36.2	what we discover most matters when we're waking up is a sense of true connection with our
1:44.9	inner life and with each other and a key way that stress disconnects us when our survival brain
1:53.7	gets triggered is through blame. And so that's what I'd like to look at more in this talk. I'd
2:01.1	like us to reflect together on what I sometimes call the prison of blame. How do we get caught in it
2:08.2	and how do we step out of it? So in that spirit, I'll start with a favorite story of an alleged
2:15.7	conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland. And this
2:22.7	supposedly occurred a number of years ago. And the way it starts is that the Americans say over
2:28.6	the radio, please divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision. Canadians
2:35.7	recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision. Americans,
2:42.0	this is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert your course. Canadians, no, I say again
2:49.3	you need to divert your course. Americans even more sternly. This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln,
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