Tara Brach

I mean, most of us can relate if we take a day, not a life, that we know love matters, we know presence matters, yet it's so easy to get caught in a trance where we're anxious and we're on our way somewhere else or distracted or losing ourself in the wormholes of YouTube or TikTok or addictive kind of behaviors.

I think of one woman

She was diagnosed with cancer, and she had one year to live.

And she had a one-year-old, and her mantra was, there's no time to rush.

She was in touch with her aspiration.

So on the bodhisattva path, it's actually a training to remember what matters.

It's a training because it's so easy to forget.

And so for me, I'll just speak personally,

The aspiration is to realize and trust and live from loving awareness, to realize that's what we are, to really trust that.

That's been there for many, many years.

But what's changed over time is that I'm more intentional about remembering it, because when I can remember it, then I get more aligned.

And so I actually build it into my daily practice, where I'll meditate in the morning,

And after I get somewhat quiet, I'll say, okay, what matters?

And in some way, it sometimes has different language, but it could be being kind, embodying love, whatever.

But then what I'll do is I'll look

into this day and sense who I'm going to be with and what I'm doing and how I might live that.

So I'll bring the different people.

I mean, first I actually bring all of my close circles to mind, each person, and I do a loving-kindness practice, and in particular one that very much helps me embody the sense of loving so it's not abstract.

Yeah.

So I'll bring, I'll say my granddaughter, she's the easiest.