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Are you your own harshest critic? Are you stuck in patterns of blame and resentment? Do you feel challenged around giving or receiving love?
One of the most painful and pervasive forms of suffering in our culture is the belief that “something is wrong with me.” For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us think that, deep down, we are just not okay.
This, accompanied by our judgment of others, keeps us at war with life. When not faced, our fears and blame prevent us from living and loving fully. On the societal level, designating a “bad other” fuels the violence that so plagues our world today.
As taught in the beloved bestseller Radical Acceptance, mindfulness empowers us to see clearly what is happening in the moment and respond to it with skillfulness. The course will explore this pathway to compassion and freedom through engaging lectures, guided meditations (ideally used many times, going deeper each time), and question & answer sessions on how best to put the teachings into practice in everyday life.
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“I listened and in each section I felt an opening of awareness occurring. The precision of Tara’s vocabulary literally spoke to me.”
“Outstanding presentation from the heart of wisdom and compassion. My deepest gratitude to Tara for such depth, tools and information.”
“Tara Brach embodies what she teaches. I always have a coming home feeling listening to her stories and instruction. There is depth but not heaviness, a natural sense of humor. She helps me be present to the joys, sorrows, struggles of life with love, compassion and acceptance. I feel that she is helping me be my best self.”
Welcome!
Getting Started
Introduction and Overview
Lesson 1 - Course Overview
Lesson 2 - The Life That’s Right Here
Lesson 3 - Practice Exercise: Arriving in This Moment
Lesson 4 - Plaster and Gold
Lesson 5 - Trance of Unworthiness
Lesson 6 - Practice Exercise: Coming Home Again
Lesson 7 - Negativity Bias
Lesson 8 - Falling Short
Lesson 9 - False Refuges
Lesson 10 -The Egoic Predicament
Lesson 11 - Recognizing and Allowing
Lesson 12 - Practice Exercise: The “No” and the “Yes”
Lesson 13 - Bringing Full Presence to Our “No” First
Lesson 14 - “Yes” Is To Feelings, Not To Triggering Events
Lesson 15 - Room for Feelings To Come and Go
Lesson 16 - To Recognize Whatever Comes Up in Us
Lesson 17 - The Sage’s Only Question
Lesson 18 - R.A.I.N. Basics
Lesson 19 - Embodied Investigation
Lesson 20 - Nurturing
Lesson 21 - Finding Nurture When We’re Most Caught
Lesson 22 - Too Intense to Investigate
