Tara Brach Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace
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May 4, 2023 Explore the concept of radical acceptance as the root of love and wisdom, and its importance in fully living from our wisdom and love. Reflect on personal experiences and anecdotes to explain the power of seeing and accepting difficult emotions or experiences without resistance. Discuss the impact of resistance on our lives and offer two questions that can help practice radical acceptance. Share a personal anecdote about forgetting to put tofu back in the oven while cooking, leading to frustration and self-criticism. Reflect on the decline of the body and mind, highlighting the power of courageous, unresisting presence.
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Practice RAIN: Notice Then Allow
- Practice RAIN: recognize and allow what's here before investigating and nurturing.
- Tara Brach teaches this sequence as the gateway to loving presence.
Knowing When To Let Go
- A bricklayer's claim shows reactive trance causing repeated injury from clinging to a rope.
- Tara Brach uses it to illustrate how resisting reality gets us into trouble.
Survival Reflex Hijacks Presence
- When the amygdala hijacks us we tighten, lose empathy, and function from survival reflexes.
- Tara Brach notes this adaptive reflex becomes suffering when it becomes habitual.