What is Love Asking from Us? Reflections on Palestine and the Bodhisattva Path With Tara Brach & Gabor Mate

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🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path - the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings - they explore the importance of compassion and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and trauma experienced by the Palestinian and Israeli people.

This conversation is an invitation to examine our own spiritual practices and to consider how we can embody the Bodhisattva spirit in today's world, breaking the silence and standing in solidarity with all who are suffering. It was offered as part of a series of conversations that accompany a poignant and heartbreaking film - “Where Olive Trees Weep” - about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. whereolivetreesweep.com

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.6	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Brock. Namstay. Welcome, friends. This week I'm sharing a conversation that was recorded earlier in the
0:37.9	summer with Gabor Mate and it was entitled,
0:42.8	What is Love asking from us?
0:45.3	Reflections on Palestine and the Bodysotva path.
0:50.4	Our conversation focuses on the qualities of hardened awareness that go beyond taking sides and truly hold all who are suffering with compassion.
1:03.0	And I can say that I don't see any other pathway
1:07.0	to healing seemingly intractable violence
1:12.0	than over time humans evolving consciousness
1:17.4	learning to stop dehumanizing and instead waking up to that realization of the preciousness of all lives.
1:26.1	The caring is what gives us a future worth living for.
1:30.3	So many of you know of Gabor who is a friend colleague and someone I I feel deep deep
1:38.8	honoring of he's a Canadian physician and author. He's done groundbreaking work in trauma,
1:46.6	addiction and more, and he brings a very deep, wise, caring, understanding to the horror that's unfolding in Palestine.
1:59.0	And he's been, he's a key figure in the film where the olive trees weep.
2:05.8	And it's about the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
2:09.5	And this conversation that we had
2:11.6	is one of a number that he had with many different types of people.
2:15.2	For those of you who are interested in the film and the conversation,
2:19.4	you'll see the links here. So I hope you find this helpful. It was a truly
2:26.8	meaningful and opening exchange for me.
2:32.0	Thank you, Tara, for joining us.
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