Tara Brach Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16)
Jan 18, 2019
A talk about how our intentions shape thoughts, feelings, and actions. Short stories and metaphors reveal how habit and fear hide deeper purpose. Guided reflections invite noticing anxious or controlling aims. Practical practices for sensing, shifting, and remembering an awake, loving aspiration are offered.
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King's Room Parable About Forgetting Purpose
- People came to a king's contest, enjoyed luxuries, and left forgetting their purpose.
- Tara Brach used the parable of a king's room to show how habit energy distracts us from our deeper intention.
Intention Shapes Experience Above The Awareness Line
- The Buddha taught that life arises from the tip of intention, so noticing intention shapes experience.
- Tara Brach explains intention moves above/below an awareness line and bringing it above gives us choice.
Shift From Anxious Control To Waking Intention
- Notice an anxious situation and sense the anxious part that tries to control outcomes.
- Then sense the aspirational part that intends to wake up, feel spacious, and compare how your being shifts between intentions.