Tara Brach

And that is the radical shift in healing that actually frees us.

Yeah.

Um,

It's a really important question because there are a lot of ways that we're conditioned to try not to feel.

In other words, one of my key inquiries for myself is, what am I unwilling to feel right now?

And there are many practices that are meant to transcend, including sometimes using non-dual practices like, well, what's aware of the fear?

I mean, you're not the fear, you're what's aware of it.

which is very powerful and very helpful if

This is the if.

There's already been a willingness to allow just what's here to be here.

But because we're so habituated to get away from it, to avoid in any way, any of those moves to transcend actually disconnect us from our bodies and our hearts.

So the emptiness or the spaciousness we feel is actually quite dry.

It's dry.

It's not rich with embodiment.

The Tibetans describe emotions as the juice.

They're forms of life, loving life.

And they're torqued by the perception of separation and wanting and fear, but they're still life, loving life.

And I really resonate with that, that their life-loving life, they're sometimes described as the animal-headed goddesses, you know, that if you think of Tibetan art at the entry to all the temples, there's these animal-headed goddesses.

And they're just the life-loving life energies that can also be incredibly, seem very demonic or threatening or jealous or aggressive or whatever.

And the teaching is...