The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1 (2016-12-14)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 17 December 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1 (2016-12-14) - These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging and the preciousness of all life. The talks examine the conditioning that inclines us toward dissociation and emotional reactivity, and the practices of presence that evolve our heart and awareness.
from Tara's talk: Pope Francis invites us to "live the revolution of tenderness," which is expressed through closeness, compassion and service...
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:06.3 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference. |
| 0:11.4 | To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com. |
| 0:26.5 | Some of my very favorite stories are dog related stories and one of the top of my list is of |
| 0:33.6 | a woman who described how she must have left a door open because this dog walked into |
| 0:40.0 | her house and she hadn't seen that dog before and it didn't have any tags but it looked |
| 0:46.7 | like it had a home, well fed, belly and clean and so on. |
| 0:50.7 | So she let the dog come in, it walked through her hallway and it walked right into her |
| 0:55.5 | living room, jumped on the couch and settled down, took a nap for an hour and then it left. |
| 1:01.8 | And she thought okay, her dog didn't seem to mind, seemed like it was an okay visit. |
| 1:06.5 | Same thing happened the next day. |
| 1:08.0 | The dog came, walked in her door, flopped down on the couch, slept for an hour and left. |
| 1:14.0 | This went on for about a week. |
| 1:15.6 | So she started getting curious. |
| 1:17.9 | She wrote a little note and pinned it to the collar that was there and the note said |
| 1:24.6 | every afternoon your dog comes to my house for a nap and I don't mind but I want to make |
| 1:29.5 | sure it's okay with you. |
| 1:32.2 | Next day the dog arrives back with a different note tend to its collar and the note says |
| 1:37.8 | he lives in a home with three children and he's trying to catch up on his sleep. |
| 1:43.6 | May I come with him tomorrow? |
| 1:49.9 | I really like this story because it has that fellow feeling kind of to it, a sense of intimacy |
| 1:56.2 | of just inviting into our lives and our beings, others. |
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