The Sacred Pause
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something's wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning to pause, and the blessings that arise when we step out of our incessant mental and physical activity and reconnect with the being-qualities of presence, wisdom and love (a favorite from the archives).
"The deepest expression of love is this non-doing presence because that's when we are inhabiting who we really are."
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference. |
| 0:08.5 | To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste friends, welcome. |
| 0:31.8 | The talk today is entitled The Sacred Pause. |
| 0:38.1 | And I've always loved that phrase because it expresses this truth that our access to what |
| 0:44.6 | we most cherish in life involves pausing. |
| 0:49.6 | We need to somehow rather step out of the incessant inner dialogue that keeps us removed from our |
| 0:56.4 | hearts and senses. And we need to step out of that kind of driven busyness of our lives |
| 1:03.2 | that blocks real intimacy with our inner life and with the world. |
| 1:09.7 | Sometimes it seems like we're racing to the finish line, |
| 1:13.6 | you know, racing through the day, racing through our life and what's the finish line, |
| 1:17.6 | it's death, and that we're actually speeding along the surface rather than allowing |
| 1:24.2 | ourselves to drop in, to really inhabit this moment. |
| 1:31.0 | I heard a story years ago about a young mother and she was diagnosed with cancer and told |
| 1:38.7 | she had a year to live. |
| 1:41.1 | And her mantra became, I have no time to rush. |
| 1:46.7 | No time to rush. |
| 1:49.7 | So whether we have one year or 40 years, if we're rushing through our life, we're not living |
| 1:58.8 | fully, we're not able to love fully. |
| 2:02.0 | And I know during holiday season it can actually feel very compressed. |
| 2:08.0 | So I hope this talk invites you to pause and touch that aliveness and that loving and |
| 2:15.7 | that mystery that's always here, it's intrinsic to our deepest |
| 2:20.9 | being. May you enjoy? I was moved by an NPR story this week that I wanted to share with you. |
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