True Happiness: Realizing Well-Being

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

True Happiness: Realizing Well-Being - Well being is the deep contentment that arises from a relaxed, wakeful presence. This talk explores the beliefs and habits that contract us away from presence, and several key ways we can nourish our natural capacity for happiness (from the archives).

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0:00.0	The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.
0:26.8	I was in high school in 11th grade.
0:31.8	I took a world religion course.
0:33.8	We were introduced to all the most of the major religions.
0:38.8	When we got to Buddhism, it was really quick that I realized that this was probably the religion that was at the bottom of my list of what I would ever be part of.
0:53.8	I was at the beginning for a talk.
0:57.8	It's focused. It's all about suffering and getting rid of desire.
1:03.8	In my mind, what made life worth living was pursuing what I desired.
1:08.8	I was sensationalist and seeking the thrill and a hedonistic way in whatever relationships, nature, drugs, adventures, whatever it was.
1:20.8	The idea of getting rid of desires just didn't sit so well because I wanted to be happy.
1:27.8	I still do. We all do. I just had some misunderstandings about it.
1:32.8	It took a few years. Plus some more suffering.
1:36.8	Till I started getting a deeper understanding of what it really meant to be happy.
1:44.8	In a nutshell, Buddhism does not say get rid of desires.
1:51.8	It really is saying see if it's possible to let go of the grasping because it hurts and causes suffering.
1:58.8	The grasping actually gets in the way of experiencing what we really desire.
2:04.8	It's really something that we can do.
2:08.8	We can do that.
2:12.8	It's really something that we can do.
2:16.8	We can do that.
2:20.8	We can do that.
2:23.8	We can do that.
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