Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Tara BrachRead
When we see the secret beauty of anyone, including ourselves, we see past our judgment and fear into the core of who we truly are - not an entrapped self but the radiance of goodness.
Interpretation
Seeing the inherent goodness in ourselves and others transcends judgment and fear.
This quote by Tara Brach emphasizes the importance of perceiving the inner beauty and goodness that exists in everyone, including ourselves. By looking beyond our judgments and fears, we can connect with the true essence of ourselves and others, recognizing that we are not defined by our flaws but instead by our inherent radiance and worth.
In practice
During a self-improvement workshop, this quote can be shared to inspire participants to embrace their true selves.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
Clearly recognizing what is happening inside us, and regarding what we see with an open, kind and loving heart, is what I call Radical Acceptance. If we are holding back from any part of our experience, if our heart shuts out any part of who we are and what we feel, we are fueling the fears and feelings of separation that sustain the trance of unworthiness. Radical Acceptance directly dismantles the very foundations of this trance.
Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.
Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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