Waking up from Bias: A conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta

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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, author and teacher Anurag Gupta offers his wise perspectives and invites Tara to share some of what she has learned in navigating this terrain. We explore how to come into a healing relationship with unhealthy thoughts; forgiving ourselves for bias (it’s impersonal); the inner freedom that arises from releasing bias and how to awaken compassion and deep respect for those we have habitually dehumanized. The interview closes with Tara leading a brief reflection on undoing bias.

Anu’s recent book is: Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From - and the Science-backed Method to Unravel Them. You can pick up your copy here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760282/breaking-bias-by-anu-gupta/ or on Anu's website at: https://www.bemorewithanu.com

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.0	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. dot com. Namst day. Welcome, greetings. There's a saying that we don't think are and
0:35.0	our society's thoughts.
0:38.0	And our society's thoughts,
0:39.0	and our society is built on biases about who's most important,
0:42.0	what life is. is built on biases about who's most important, what lives matter more,
0:46.0	by creating value in relationship to skin color, religion, class, gender, and more. So far from being immune, these hierarchies, these biases,
0:59.7	are very much a part of the filter we live with and if they're not conscious they only
1:06.2	get more and more grooved in. You probably know the t-shirt that says I just read about confirmation bias. It only proved I already know. But as we do go through the world trying to prove what our view is.
1:24.4	And our biases shrink and retort level.
1:30.1	They are not around it.
1:32.1	And of course, a larger society biases,
1:35.0	the grounds of violence and suffering.
1:38.0	So I'm speaking of this because
1:41.0	at a month or so ago, I had a conversation with my friend and colleague
1:45.8	on Gupta who's written a book waking up from bias discovering the reality of the
1:51.2	longing. He anchored a summit on this theme and our
1:56.4	conversation was really one of a number of interviews that he did with
2:01.0	different people and in it of course we both share our
2:04.2	understandings. So I hope you find this really serves in your life. Thank you.
2:20.0	Today I am so so thrilled to speak to a very, very special person, someone who's been in a dear to me ever since I got off that ledge in 2009 I first discovered Tara Brock her book but also
2:30.8	her podcast which I would religiously listen to every week. I remember taking trips
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