Tara Brach

And just to build from that, that's called resourcing.

And just to be able to

build some sense of safety and nourishment is what then gives us the capacity to start widening the circles and feeling more at home in ourselves and our world.

Yeah, so first of all, I'm with you that a lot of people don't feel like they're being courageous, but courage has to do with some willingness to feel what we're feeling and to act anyway because there's something we care about.

And here's a big one for me that...

Over the last decade, some of my teaching has kind of expanded and shifted in its emphasis.

It's as we're talking here and as the book is reflecting this kind of inseparability of inner practice and how we are living in the world, what it means to really widen the circles of our care so we're feeling truly a belonging with all beings.

And in our culture, spiritual path is very individualistic, as I mentioned.

Most people really have come because they want help with their emotions, they want more learning about self-compassion, they want to feel more freedom.

they're not as drawn to what it means to live that in widening circles.

So that's a kind of preface to say that to live from compassion has asked me to have the courage to see clearly and name what I see in the collective.

Because if you don't name the particulars of suffering, we can't respond.

So I name them.

I talk about the intense domains of suffering that are very charged and controversial, you know, whether it's people of color being violated and dehumanized when immigrants are grabbed by ICE and deported or...

As we speak, Palestinians being killed, their homes and land taken by settlers.

So when whole populations are subjected to cruelty right here and now on this earth, and this includes talking about animals and factory farms, I just name what I can.

And I often get pushback, you know, stay in your lane.

Sometimes it's anger.

and I care about being trusted and being helpful so it can land to me this fear of falling short that you know maybe if I had found better words it would have landed differently so

My process to be able to show up is I have to say yes to what the experience is, accepting that some people are not going to like what I say.