The Infinite Game - From Self-Improvement to Spiritual Freedom

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

While meditation is widely practiced in today’s world, many miss the opportunity to tap into its profound potential to awaken the heart and mind. Beyond its surface benefits, meditation can guide us to the radiant light, boundless love, and pure awareness that is our true nature. This reflection explores how we often lose touch with the deeper possibility meditation offers, and guides us in approaching practice and daily life in a way that opens us to the timeless freedom and awakening of a Buddha.

In this week’s talk, Tara explores:

Ways that deepening our meditation practice can help us navigate personal and collective challenges with greater ease.
The power of mindful presence to awaken compassion and build resilience in the face of difficulty.
Self-compassion as an essential practice for healing and reconnecting with our inner goodness.
The transformative role of spiritual community (sangha) in nurturing belonging and shared purpose.
How the practices of mindfulness and self-compassion can help us awaken from habitual reactivity and find a greater sense of connectedness and freedom.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:06.0	To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste, welcome friends. Thank you for being here.
0:32.5	I am often asked questions about deepening meditation.
0:37.0	You know, what will most serve on the spiritual
0:39.7	path? And it's been even more frequent a question in recent months. And I suspect there are many
0:48.5	of us that are just sensing how our world is regressing. There's a real darkness, United States, globally, and how urgently
0:59.6	we need the light of human spirit to shine forth. So meditation can be used in many ways,
1:09.1	and it can be used in ways that range from tools to reduce
1:12.1	anxiety and relieve stress really to practices that reveal the timeless awareness and love that's our
1:23.2	essence practices that really free us to love without holding back.
1:30.0	So we'll be looking together, honestly, at how meditation is serving us on the path,
1:37.2	how it's serving or unfolding.
1:40.2	And the reason I want to focus on this is because while meditation is increasingly widespread in today's society,
1:49.0	its deep potentials often not touched, and we get habituated and can stay more on the surface of the path.
1:58.0	So today's reflection is on some of the deeper dimensions of what's possible.
2:05.6	And if you're new to practice, no worries. These are universal teachings and practices,
2:11.6	and every one of us has the potential to go really deep more than we assume.
2:21.1	One of my first retreats, I heard a story about a woman who decided to go to India to see
2:27.4	the guru and she calls her travel agent and the travel agent who says, why don't you go to
2:33.2	Florida like you usually do? But she makes
2:35.8	the reservations and takes that long flight to India from the United States, then a long train
2:43.1	ride across mountainous terrain. And while she's on the train, she meets people who actually
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