Tara Brach Part 2: The Lion's Roar
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May 16, 2012 Explores how faith and trust in our true nature arise through moments of presence. Investigates how letting go of ego and control widens perception and invites intuitive intelligence. Describes everyday tastes of belonging, creativity born from uncertainty, and how difficulty can fuel awakening. Invites small acts of trust that build a positive spiral toward freedom and wonder.
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Shawshank Scene That Unleashed Awe
- Moments of beauty can instantly open people to a shared sense of awe and belonging.
- Tara recounts the Shawshank Redemption scene where classical music silences a prison and awakens devotional stillness.
Choose Wise Hope Over Outcome Clinging
- Cultivate a wise, open hope that keeps doors to possibility rather than clinging to outcomes.
- Tara contrasts narrowed hope (outcome-dependent) with nourishing hope that fosters receptivity and supports healing and immune response.
Make The Spacesuit Ego Porous
- Letting the 'spacesuit' ego become porous allows deeper universal intelligence and love to shine through.
- Tara uses Emerson's 'soul of the whole' to show how reduced selfing enables genius, virtue, and love.
