Tara Brach Lovingkindness - Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love
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May 7, 2026 A guided look at lovingkindness and how habitual patterns block its natural flow. Short practices are offered to open the body and heart, notice others' goodness, and speak appreciation. Stories and metaphors illustrate how control and attachment narrow love. The talk walks listeners through expanding warmth from a loved one to all beings.
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Golden Buddha Metaphor For Hidden Goodness
- A covered clay Buddha in Sukhothai was discovered to be solid gold when cracks revealed a gleam.
- Tara Brach uses this as a metaphor: we cover our innate goodness to survive, and practices help reveal the hidden gold.
Control Strategies Close The Heart
- Love is blocked by habitual control strategies that arise when needs go unmet: safety, gratification, and attachment.
- Under stress we become the doing self and forget the open heart space, contracting away from the gold.
Dinner Table Suspicion Exposes Control Habits
- A mother emails her son about a missing soup ladle and replies with a sly comment implying she knows more than she says.
- Tara Brach shares it to illustrate how family suspicion and control strategies play out in close relationships.