The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance
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What is radical acceptance and why does it matter?
Welcome friends to the Tara Brock Podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Each week I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing to our world. You can learn more or support this offering by visiting Tara Brock dot com, where you can also join our email list. Now let's explore together the many ways we can live from the love and presence of That's our deepest essence.
Namaste.
Namaste. Welcome friends. I was interviewed recently and asked, What have you made peace with that you might not have thought was possible? And pretty quickly what my mind came up with was, well, being imperfect. I don't know about you and what you'd answer about that, but I can say for myself When I was younger, I was really at war with myself for imperfection, you know, for how I could be. insensitive, selfish, how I was competitive, how I was controlling, how I hurt would hurt others. You know, these are parts of myself that felt uh unforgivable, you know, like I was a fundamentally flawed human. And Many decades later I still feel the flaws of being human and I feel in good company with all my fellow flawed humans, all of us conditioned by fears, um, from our upbringings, from our societies.
So what brings a sense of Okay ness with it all. And compassion and often humor. Is knowing we are more. We are more than the conditioning that so often we fixate on. We are more. We are conscious awakening beings. We have the capacity to care. To love to live from wise hearts. Now many I know have this fear that being at peace with imperfections like this green light to be a self-centered hurtful person. А часто improve if we forgive ourselves. And The truth is that That radical acceptance. For I'll speak for myself, allows me to deepen presence when the unhealthy habits arise. I'm not locked in shame or defensiveness. So I can actually engage with them more able to respond with Clarity, with kindness, with creativity, there's more flexibility and capacity to change.
Being at war with ourselves Is a real prison. I mim through the decades of teaching. I'd say some of the deepest freedom I've seen. In myself and others. is committing to stop the war. Практизань ракіль ацетнance анорс. The benefits quite naturally extend to how we relate to our fellow beings. So I hope today's talk on radical acceptance will inspire you. It's from the archives and my wish is that it deepens your intentionality to embrace this life with a wise heart. Okay, friends, thank you. Namaste and welcome. I begin with a little story about a couple who had been married for 60 years and to stay together for all that long, you have to be completely honest with your partner. So the husband and wife were really open and they shared everything and they didn't have secrets from each other except for one thing.
The wife kept a shoebox in the closet. And she asked her husband not to open it or even to ask about it. And the man didn't really actually think about the box. Until It was about sixty years in, his wife got very sick and the doctor said she wouldn't make it. And trying to sort out her their affairs, the husband took the shoebox to his wife's bedside and she agreed it was time for him to. I see what's inside. And his eyes widened as he discovered ninety-five thousand dollars and two crocheted dolls in the box. And so the old woman explained, well, you know, when we were to be married, my grandmother told me the secret. of a happy marriage was to never find fault with your partner, to never argue. And she told me that if I ever got angry with you, it was caught up in blame or resentment, I should just keep quiet.
and crochet a doll. The husband was really deeply touched. Two dolls meant she was really only angry with him twice in sixty years. Honey, he said, after really being overcome with emotions, that explains the dolls, but what about all the money? Where did it come from? She said, Oh that. Well, that's the money I made from selling all the dolls.
How does Tara illustrate the cost of living at war with our imperfections?
Hello. As we know, um, we're fault-finding beings.
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