meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Tara Brach

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2 (2016-02-17)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2 (2016-02-17) - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience.  These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening.

"If we don't bring inquiry from the neck down, we cannot untangle the tangles. Our emotional life lives in our body, so inquiry needs to be embodied. One of the misconceptions of inquiry is that it's analytic - that it's conceptual... it's not. Inquiry is shining the light of awareness to what's actually happening - moment to moment in our bodies."

Tara's website: www.tarabrach.com

Join Tara’s email list: http://eepurl.com/6YfI

Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With thanks and love, Tara

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Greetings.

0:06.7

We offer these podcasts freely and your support really matters.

0:12.5

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com.

0:29.1

I'm a stay and welcome.

0:33.4

I find it helpful to think of spiritual practice as cultivating

0:39.1

primarily three domains.

0:41.9

And the first domain is one of an open, awake awareness,

0:46.7

mindfulness that brings awareness right here and now.

0:51.1

And the second domain is that inquiry that really shines

0:56.7

light on what's happening and reveals the truth of nature.

1:01.5

And the third domain are the practices that really cultivate

1:06.4

the heart, that awaken a natural open-heartedness.

1:12.1

What I'd like to do tonight is it's continuing what we did last

1:16.5

week is explore the second of those three, which is the domain

1:22.0

of inquiry, of shining the light of awareness

1:25.2

on what's happening in the moment.

1:27.8

And I thought I'd begin with reading a piece that I read

1:32.0

in the last talk that for me has been,

1:37.0

I find one of the most beautiful and powerful on this.

1:39.8

And this is by Heldegard of Bingham.

1:42.8

And she writes this, we cannot live in a world that is not

1:49.0

our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.