Tara Brach

And there's something about it that just works for me.

So I just do it.

So this has been one of the most meaningful and healing and freeing practices of my life.

I mean, I think radical acceptance came out of not trusting my own goodness.

And so learning to feel the pain of that and sensing under my conditioning, whatever I saw as flawed, sensing deep down this tenderness, this caring, this awakeness.

paying attention to that and then just wishing to live from that more was very, very healing and of course very much noticing that the more I see the goodness in others, the more loving there is.

So I teach about it a lot.

And I mean, I remember, oh, about 15 years ago, giving a talk on it, and my mother was with me.

When she lived here, she used to come into town to my class.

And I'll say, to give context, my mom was a graduate of Barnard, and her

area was philosophy.

So she just took me on.

She said, well, why is goodness more basic than badness?

And she talked about attacking Iraq and cutting down the rainforest and humans and war.

And isn't that basic badness just as much there?

And

So it was great.

She loved to tussle.

And I'll say that in her life, she was very much a person to bring up people's goodness.

That was the main thing people talked about at her memorial service, that they liked who they were in her company.