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AP News Radio
Aho's late goal lifts Hurricanes past Maple Leafs 5-3
"The hurricanes wasted leads of two zero and three two before scoring twice in a 69 second span to beat the Maple Leafs 5 three. Sebastian aho broke a three three tie with two 26 remaining, then set up the insurance tally by Taylor Tara vine. Brent burns, Jordan stall and Stefan naesen also scored for Carolina, who stayed two points ahead of second place New Jersey in the metropolitan division with two games in hand. Auston Matthews tied the game twice for the Maple Leafs. The latter coming with under three minutes to play. I'm Dave ferry.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Caller: What Happened to Tara Reade, Biden's Sexual Assault Accuser?
"Also the same talk show host, Jeff kuhner was talking about there's a woman who's now come out and said that Biden raped her while he was a congressman. Tara Reid remember the woman's name. Her name is Tara Reade. And that came out before the election, but she was hushed. Nobody paid any attention to it. The media just silenced her and the Democrats would not, she wanted to speak in front of Congress, Democrats wouldn't let her do it. And so she never got to tell her story, but she apparently now is speaking with one of the Republican committees.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
Crypto Fugitive Do Kwon Arrested Per Montenegro Minister
"Do kwon has likely been arrested at the airport in Montenegro, according to a new tweet from the minister, the interior of that country is a pretty big news bombshell for the development and we've of course been tracking do Kwan and where in the world is do Quan on the show for quite a while. It seems like he has finally been caught. There's been requests from Interpol to locate the individual he is behind, of course, terraform labs, which was behind the failed tarot Luna stablecoin, which the talk about $40 billion in market cap wiped off the face of cryptocurrency industry in a few hours last May of 2022. It is a huge new update. He's been on the run for a while. People have been thinking that he's been in the survey region and this is confirmed that we are still waiting on further information coin desk is currently reporting on. Zack went through some up to you. This is good news for most people, I think. This is like maybe get some justice here once. Well, if this is all fully confirmed yet, does sort of close the book on this chapter of the dauphin saga, right? The Tara ecosystem implosion, arguably, was one of those first big dominoes that set subsequent crypto collapses in motion,
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Tara Reade Reacts to Ashley Biden's Alleged Diary Entry
"We are back with Tara Reade. Tara, I wanted to get your reaction to this. This is a diary entry from Ashley Biden. The diary has been confirmed as real and authentic and one of her entries says this. It just says hyper sexualized at a young age. What is this due to? Was I molested? I think so. I can't remember specifics, but I do remember trauma. I remember not liking the wool Zack's house. I remember somewhat being sexualized with Caroline. I remember having sex with friends at a young age, showers with my dad probably not appropriate. What's your reaction to seeing something like that? Yeah, I mean, that's a deeply personal diary entry. So my heart goes out to whoever wrote that. I mean, and obviously they've verified that it's Ashley Biden. I think it's deeply disturbing. I mean, I don't know how anyone could not read that and think that's not deeply disturbing. Yeah. Yeah, it's tragic because for a long time the left tried to discredit the diary pretend it wasn't real. It's kind of like what they did with Hunter Biden trying to discredit the laptop and all of this as opposed to seeing this is a person in such deep pain. I mean, I feel horrible for Ashley Biden having to go through this. That's so sad she mentioned even with her sister. And then you think of hunter. I mean, he's, of course, guilty of crimes, but he's also a disturbed person. Dad wasn't there for him. There was a lot of personal information on the laptop. He struggles with drug addiction and things like that. And so it's really sad to see the left just kind of belittle it and act like, oh, it doesn't matter. It's not a big deal. We're just going to prop up Joe Biden as opposed to focusing on the whether it's sexual assault or mental health.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Tara Reade Reflects on Her Time as a Senate Aide for Biden
"You went in there with a lot of idealism. You had goals, you wanted to learn new things when you went to work there. So when you got there as a Senate aide, when did things kind of begin to maybe not feel less idealistic or as positive while you were there. Well, almost right away, unfortunately. You know, and I want to contrast it a little bit to Leon Panetta's office. Leon Panetta's office was very professional. You know, politically, I may not agree with everything. He does, but he was very serious minded, and he worked very hard. And the office was very structured. It was just like what you would expect a normal like you're trying to do things for your constituents. And it was a normal working environment. Biden's office was, it was a shock. It wasn't that way at all. It was very top down kind of people were treated not very well. Lower stuff. I mean, for an example, one of my colleagues who had an advanced degree and worked as a legislative aid was telling the senator advising him how to vote and giving him information. He was delegated to drive the limo for Beau Biden and his date for the inaugural events. And he had to do that as a volunteer. He wasn't paid for that. And it's not like. And I mean, they just kind of treated their stuff like minions. Unless they were on the inside track and then they were given a lot of favor. So it was a very strange environment. Joe Biden did not seem serious to me. He seemed more, he didn't seem intellectually committed to what he was doing is what I'm trying to say. And I got that right away. The way he would touch me, I thought was unusual, but remember this is the 90s. What was tolerated then is very different than what happens now, but even then it was usual. And unusual enough for me to call my mother and say, hey, you know, this happened, and this happened. And I kept calling her and she said, you know, she educated me, really. You know, that's not okay. That's sexual harassment. He has power over you, and he shouldn't be doing that.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Interviews Former Senate Aide Tara Reade
"I'm delighted to welcome our guest today Tara Reid. She's an author, actress, former Senate aide, and the host of the Tara Reade podcast. Tara, thanks for joining us. Hi. Yeah, I'm actually in my podcast is called the politics of survival. And it's on every Friday night. So on rumble and on YouTube, well, sometimes YouTube, sometimes they pull it down. You know. Oh my gosh. Oh no. So you get like some YouTube strikes and violations lately, but yeah, it seemed like it was more frequent earlier this year and it seems to have calmed down a little bit, but yeah, look everyone. I think rumble is really great because it's just sort of there's no, there's no censorship. Yes, that is so nice. It's crazy too how I'm sure you were just talking about things that shouldn't have been censored, but how it is. But yeah, I thought we could get started by maybe you could tell us a little bit about your earlier years in life. Where did you grow up? Where are you from? Kind of tell us a little bit about you becoming a Senate aide. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's interesting. wrote about it in my book left out when the truth doesn't fit in, and you can find that on Amazon or wherever. I wrote a bit about my childhood, but I lived on a farm in Wisconsin when I was a little girl. I was born in the Monterey county, California, since Linus. And you know, I went back there as an adult actually to the Monterey area, which is a beautiful area, but very, very expensive. And I loved my years growing up in Wisconsin farm. I always had an interest in my family is very political. My mother was an activist and anti war activist Vietnam and very committed to that. My father, I was pretty much a strange with him after their divorce from 13 9. I didn't see much of him for years at a time. But he was a defense contractor and worked for the panna cotta at one time and was a writer. So he was very different politically than my mother. So very different views. And I think that's kind of in a way good because I've had a lot of different input of different points of view throughout my life.
HASHR8
We're Seeing Similarities to May of 2022
"We are recording this Friday morning. It is 9 30 mountain time. So it's what love and 30 Eastern Time. Bitcoin's price almost broke to $27,000 this morning. It's up around 5% in the 24 hours previously and is up about 30% this week in 56% year to date. That's obviously pretty amazing for everyone's bags. And it's also helping out hash price a little bit. I think we're over 7 sets with hash price. The thing that's interesting to me is transaction count, which or the fullness of the mem pool, if you will, is increasing the drastically we've seen two large increases in the mempool size since the beginning of the year. Once in February, when ordinals started really going, haywire, and then the last week would Bitcoin's price has been going up. Historically, we often see the men pool really fill up with transactions during a bull run when a lot of retail floods into the market and this current fullness of men pull is very similar to May of 2022, which is when we had the contagion in the explosion and Tara Luna. So another time for a lot of transactions on chain. Get a throw it over to you for your thoughts on all that. Filling up the increasing transaction fees good for minors, first of all, good for miners on both fronts, price going up and more transactions. So that's exciting. It seems the mental to me seems to be kind of driven again by ordinals inscriptions. This seems like there's like some deja and competition for the 500,000th inscription. And there's some like pre hefty size transactions and the pool right now, which definitely seemed like very similar to the ones we were seeing. So that's kind of unique and interesting there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Are We Hearing From Joe Biden?
"Hearing from Joe Biden? He said that we are going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes. That means another year, another 5 years, another ten years and let's make sure we have our facts right. I know we obviously have a very conservative audience and I know based on your emails you send me freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com, you are against the war in Ukraine, but several of your Republican senators and several of your Republican congressmen are the most enthusiastic advocates for this new endless war. So this is not just Joe Biden. This is both parties. In fact, Republicans are pushing for even more aid. In Ukraine. Joe Biden and cut four, the United States will support Ukraine for as long as it takes. There is no end date, there is no limit as Ukraine, one of the states in our country might as well be for neoliberalism. For neoliberals, they don't see borders, borders are an abstract concept. We're all one world. Pick up four. Freedom is priceless. It's worth fighting for, as long as it takes. And that's how long we're going to be with you, mister president, for as long as it takes. We'll do it. Thank you. I mean, I just get a kick out of saying that zelensky represents freedom. The man that bans political parties, the man that literally does not allow the Russian Orthodox Church from existing or worshiping in mainland Ukraine. Zelensky is a corrupt oligarch. Does that mean he deserves in his people deserve to be invaded by Putin? No. But to make zelensky somehow the standard bearer of western freedom is just laughable.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Joe Biden Makes a Surprise Visit to Ukraine
"Your president is visiting his prized constituents in Ukraine. Now I have to say many of you are fired up and you should be, why is he not visiting Ohio? Why is he not focusing on issues here domestically? And that is the right sentiment. However, the fact that we spent a $100 billion in Ukraine were acting as if Ukraine is more like America than our own country. Is it the 51st state? That's a simple question, but hey, I actually don't think it's a waste of time if you're doing the right thing when you go to visit Ukraine and Biden is doing the opposite of the right thing. Yes, he should be visiting some of the catastrophes and disasters happening in our homeland first, but we've talked about what is neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is caring more about the needs wants and concerns of foreigners than that of your own citizens. Tyrants dictators and despots have a fetish for the needs wants and concerns of something that is foreign and they really are disinterested in your life. In the life of an American. So Biden is in the middle of the Ukrainian war zone. And yes, I totally agree. He should be an east Palestinian. He should be mobilizing fema. He should be concerned about our own country, but visiting Ukraine. I don't think is necessarily a waste of time. If you are using the bully pulpit, if you are using American strength, if you are using the power of the presidency to broker peace, if you are saying, hey, let's end this war. Now, I believe Joe Biden does have deep seated contempt for large parts of America. I think he really does, I think he hates Midwest Trump America. But all that aside, if you are going to visit Ukraine, if you're going to visit visit Eastern Europe, in the middle of this proxy war that is about to hit a whole, it's about to enter a whole new chapter in about a week and a half. It seems as if Putin is going to put his foot on the accelerator and what are we doing? What is our government doing? Well, Joe Biden is doing the exact opposite and it's going to put America at risk. It's going to put more of our money at risk. And the most immediate and sad fact is that tens of thousands of people are going to unnecessarily die in
Protos
Explained SEC allegations against Do Kwon and Terraform Labs
"3 p.m. Friday February 17th, 2023. Explain the CC allegations against duclon and terraform labs. The SEC claims that duquan and terraform labs lied about a South Korean application called shy using Tara to process payments. The post explained to CC allegations against duclon and terraform labs appeared first on protos.
Mark Levin
Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder: Chinese Balloon Is Maneuverable, Invaded Air Space
"There's a couple of things I want to play for you First of all this is Brigadier general Patrick rider The Pentagon spokesman today at the press briefing saying that the balloon actually is maneuverable Oh that's fun Cut number 5 It's moving eastward and it's over the continental U.S. It's not over Montana anymore Is the Chinese government controlling the movement of the balloon Or is it just floating with air streams Thanks Jennifer So I'm not going to go into any specific intelligence that we may have Again we know this is a Chinese balloon and that it has the ability to maneuver But I'll just leave it at that Okay So okay maneuver That's helpful So why don't we tell it to maneuver the hell out of here And go away for example that would be very helpful I would think And I started to play this for you but I had to wrap it up short but I want to get to this point that we know it is a surveillance balloon It's not a weather balloon It wasn't there looking for agricultural samples or whatever the BS was that China told us today No it's just an agriculture balloon looking for earthworms or something Whatever their lame excuse was cut number 6 Hi pat Thank you for doing this China has said this is just a weather balloon that has veered off course Why is The Pentagon convinced that this is a surveillance balloon And then can you give us a little bit more on the status of the balloon You said it's in the central central U.S. what state do you have any guidance for people as they see this balloon or they're trying to photograph it or maybe try and interfere with it Sure Thanks Tara So first of all we are aware of the PRC's statement however the fact is we know that it's a surveillance balloon And I'm not going to be able to be more specific than that We do know that the balloon has violated U.S. airspace and international law which is unacceptable And so we've conveyed this directly to the PRC at multiple levels
The Crypto Basic
Edward Kim Explains Stance on Terra Classic Allnodes Concern in Gadikian Appeal
"10 a.m. Saturday, January 28th, 2023. Edward Kim explains stance on Tara classic all notes concern in gaddi and appeal. Kim says reducing all nodes voting power effectively reduces risks to the Tara classic chain. Terra classic core developer and director of the terror grants foundation Edward Kim has explained a reasoning behind his stance on recent concerns surrounding all mill's operations on the Terra classic chain in a Twitter thread yesterday. Recall that notional labs founder the post Edward Kim explains stance on Tara classic all notes concern in gaudy and appeal appeared first on the crypto basic.
The Crypto Basic
TerraCVita Gives First Look At Terra Classic DEX
"10 a.m. Saturday, January 21st, 2023. Terrace dita gives first look at Tara classic DEX. The DEX will provide users with at least three ways to earn. Teresita and independent terror classic development group in a tweet today shared the first looks of the imminent terror classic decentralized exchange embedded in the Terra port decentralized finance project. The group calls the DEX midnight runner the shared image shows an interface with the post terrace Vita gives first look at Tara classic DEX first appeared on the crypto basic.
The Crypto Basic
Terra Classic Core Developer Reveals Proposal To Eliminate Canonical LUNC Repo
"11 a.m. Saturday, January 7th, 2023. Terra classic core developer reveals proposal to eliminate canonical Eliza repo. The proposal will eliminate the need for a central authority overseeing code changes to the blockchain. Edward Kim, Tara classic developer and associate professor at drexel university, has proposed eliminating the existing canonical repository for the Tara classic blockchain. If the proposal passes code changes made by developers will not be overseen by a central. The post Terra classic core developer reveals proposal to eliminate canonical elec repo first appeared on the crypto basic.
Crypto-News
2022 Might Not Be the Crypto Disaster it Seemed on the Surface
"5 p.m. Thursday, January 5th, 2023. 2022 might not be the crypto disaster it seemed on the surface. The cryptocurrency market defy industry faced significant challenges during the second quarter of 2022, as coins saw a downward trend and failed to recover in Q three Q four. The collapse of Tara Luna in May had severe consequences, resulting in the bankruptcies of Celsius, Voyager, and three arrows capital. In August, the federal government the post 2022 might not be the crypto disaster it seemed on the surface appeared first on crypto news dot net.
The Crypto Basic
Here is Why Terra Luna Classic LUNC Soaring
"10 a.m. Saturday December 24th, 2022. Here's why Tara Luna classic ill UNC soaring. Elu NC rally 6 to become the highest gaining token among the top crypto 100 assets. Despite the underperformance of top cryptocurrencies, tear lona classic ill UNC has recorded a sensational rally. Over the past 24 hours recorded a 6 price increase. The cryptocurrency, which plunged to a 24 hour low of 0.000137 6 7, rally to Ohio. The posterior is whiter Luna classic ill UNC soaring first appeared on the crypto basic.
The Crypto Basic
Terra Classic Shuttle Bridge Sunset Will Not Affect LUNC Staked On Terra Station
"11 a.m. Saturday December 24th, 2022. Terra classic shuttle bridge sunset will not affect staked on terror station. Held on terror station will not be affected by the shuttle bridge sunset. Classy classy crypto in a tweet on Thursday confirmed that Tara Luna classic held on terror station will not be affected by the shuttle bridge sunset. Classy confirmed this on Thursday as users speculated that the latest decision by TfL may. The post Terra classic shuttle bridge sunset will not affect all UNC staked on terror station first appeared on the crypto basic.
Coin Edition
Bitcoin is the Top Most GoogleSearched Crypto in the World in 2022
"8 a.m. Sunday, December 25th, 2022. Bitcoin is the topmost Google searched crypto in the world in 2022. The year 2022 has seen an unprecedented turn of events for the crypto market and as the year comes to an end, we present to you the top 5 most Google searched cryptocurrencies in the world in 2022. Several cryptocurrencies have stood the test of FTX, Tara Luna collapse and continued to intrigue investors. Bitcoin has. The post Bitcoin is the top most Google searched crypto in the world in 2022 appeared first on coin edition.
Tara Brach
"tara" Discussed on Tara Brach
"Like you, said he is 6 foot three. Yes, he is. And when I was sick, he always, he would say mama, what do you need? And he'd make me a cup of blueberry tea. Beautiful. Yeah. So this relationship with Jake, it continues, doesn't it? Oh, yes. Yeah, it's not over. It continues. And if your husband should die before you, that relationship will continue also. So that's important to remember. That even when people die, our relationship with them continues. Okay? Okay. That's enough for now, huh? Okay. He has present moment present. Yeah, but no ideas. Just be real, okay? Just be real. Be real as you feel Jake with you right now. That real, no ideas. Okay? Yes, thank you. You're welcome. Very welcome. Okay, now. Thanks for listening. Sarah. Hi, thank you. So my question is regarding death and dying. I am currently 52 years old and have been struggling with stage four. Cancer for 7 years. And I've had a pretty good run a bit. I mean, I've had a really great quality of life, but recently, and sort of, yeah, a lot of times, not forgotten about it, but it doesn't identify who I am. And I have three teenage children and recently I've learned that I have a lot more cancer. It's affecting my lung, my lung workings, and I have pain, and I am just so full of fear and I keep I listen to Tara's lecture last week about, you know, pain, plus resistance is suffering, and I try to stay with what is and not resist it, but I'm afraid of suffering more, I'm afraid of dying, while not so afraid of the dying, but I really don't want to leave my kids. One of them is very, very depressed right now. And Sharon, we just have to go to the essence of it right now. Okay? So let me just maybe, since you've been listening to Tara, let's listen to her a little bit more and see maybe if she has something. She wants to respond. Yeah. So I guess a question for you, dear, is when the fear comes up, how are you relating to it? Are you feeling like I shouldn't be afraid right now? Something's wrong that's going on. Tell me what's happening. I hold her like a baby. And I just sort of rock her and cuddle her and say it's okay. And her name is Ali. And but it's still like I can hardly even talk about it. As you can tell, it just blows my blows me right out of the track of living in yet huge. So let me ask you in this moment as you feel like you're holding her and rocking her, what else you feel she needs in this moment, what would give her more of a sense of space or comfort, you know, just right now, what is it? Just you asking that helps. I don't know. And you're not supposed to necessarily know exactly right. This is all about our relationship with fear, the fear is a given. You know, I sometimes say thank you to my fear because my fear is coming from my love of life living, you know? Exactly. Yeah, it's just that essence of you that just wants to live. And so just know there's a love for living and a love for the relationships and keep saying, what do you need right now? And it may not be that there's a small self there that can offer something to her. It's okay to call on something larger. Okay? Call on whatever sense of love you have, sweetie. That is in this universe. Whatever light love formless presence that you in some way detect call on that. You know, let that help you to hold this little precious beam. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. We have a little more time. So we're going to ask people to just go right to essence. Go write the essence if you can. So we have Sylvia. Yeah. So this is coming from graciela and she says, the husband of my daughter has cancer. And he's not the same person he used to be his brain cancer. And it's very hard to take care of him because we don't know him. We don't even like him. What to do? Oh. Well, this one strikes home for me because I've had some strokes in the last few years and I'm not the same person. I was before the strokes. And sometimes I'm not so easy to be around. At least not for the people who love me. And so I'm sad about that. And maybe this person is sad about that as well. And it might be helpful to recognize that, in this other person, how sad they might be how afraid they might be. By not being able to recognize themselves. You know, I had an antenna to Mimi and she was 80 some odd years old. I forget that she had severe dementia and when I would go and see her, he didn't recognize me who I was and she was always chaotic and she'd throw her dress over her head and you know, it was difficult to be with. And she'd been a spinster. They said in those days, a woman who lived by herself or her life, and so I was always curious about this. So one day, very brazenly I said, Mimi, all these years. You live by yourself. You never had a bow, you never had a sweetheart. All these years? And suddenly this woman who'd been throwing her dress over had sat up straight in their chair and folded her arms in front of her and said, some questions are too personal to ask. And it reminded me that there's always a whole human being there. There's always a whole human being there. Sometimes in a very distressing disguise. But we can always we can find a way of speaking directly to that whole human being we can find a way or seeing ourselves in them and seeing them in us. And I think that matters greatly in how we care for them..
Tara Brach
"tara" Discussed on Tara Brach
"And then I realized that she's okay. She's being held. You know, and it's her process, but she's being held. And I don't have to hold her all the time. Or I'm part of that holding too, you know? Like we're just that life is holding us. Okay, that's first I just want to bow because that's really a beautiful sharing and teaching for all of us. And it may be that during the moments of overwhelm, you can more quickly, I often just put my hand on my heart and just hear that voice that reminder, you know, this belongs. This is a natural, this is just the way this human body mind works to get overwhelmed. It's okay. It's just part of nature. And then just to remember, there is a light and a love that's coming through your mom that's holding your mom that's coming through you, that just is always here. Even when we can't immediately sense it and contact it and to trust in that and this is your wisdom. So draw on that. I mean, the more moments that you turn to that, that's a refuge that can carry you. Thank you. Yeah, I can feel the calmness with that. So yeah, I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks, Vanessa. We have a question from a Spanish speaker, Sylvia, do you want to come on and ask? Sorry. This is coming from Monica and see a how do you forgive yourself? Oh, my. Well, I have to say that I think forgiveness is a fierce practice. It has been in my life. And I'm a little suspicious of forgiveness that comes too quickly. For me forgiveness is the willingness to see the parts of myself that sometimes very ugly parts of myself that I would rather not see. And to touch it with mercy to touch those parts of myself with some mercy. Yeah. To recognize my humanity. And my ignorance, yeah? So I think the first thing I do is to recognize it may be a long, slow process. And it's both a kind and fierce one. And. Well, I want to stop there, actually, and see what else Tara has to add to this actually. Frank, what you just said about it being a long process has such truth to it. I think there's a lot of premature forgiveness of others and ourselves. And the pathway is really through the vulnerability of contacting the pain of what's inside us. What helps me is to feel the pain of that and feel under it what has been driving it. And there's sometimes a metaphor I find really helpful if you're walking in a Woods and you see a little dog by a tree and you go to Pettit and the dog leaps at you ferociously bear teeth, bear fangs, and you go from being friendly to being really angry. And then you realize that the dog has a paw and a trap. And then something really shifts. And you might not get near it right away because you want to protect yourself and protect others. But your heart's shifts. And I think that's the shift that happens when we go through that portal of feeling the painful parts of our being, the conditioned parts of aversion and aggression and all the things we don't like. Is that we find under them that we have our leg in a trap, that there's some real pain, some fear, some hurt, and then we tend to that and gradually intending to that. The forgiveness naturally unfolds. I hope that's helpful. Thanks, Frankie. Can we take another question? Yeah, please. Here I sit. Kind of wrapped up in blankets because I'm not feeling well. And I'm 84 years old. And thinking about the challenges of getting all losing your family and staying staying in the game, which I really want to do. So I guess that's my question right now. Tara, why don't you take a shot at this? Yeah, Patricia here are less of a question, more of your heart's aspiration. To stay true to your life and what's here, and I'm wondering, what is it that might get in the way for that? Is there a belief or a feeling that makes you feel that in some way you want to resign or you're not going to show up? I'm all right on the money. Poetry has been my kind of go to avocation. And I'm writing what I keep calling my glass book of poetry compiling it. And so I have this argument going on, well, let's stop talking about that. That's really you're making everything too important and then say, oh yeah, but so it's interesting. And it's a challenge to put all that down. To go ahead with the work and not complicate it with that question. So what I'm hearing is that there's a self doubt that it's valuable or it's worth putting forth. Is that right? It's that and yeah, and not so much that it's my work or but what is that? What has value? Kind of larger question, I guess, what's the point? So, and I think my advancing age really drives that question. A lot. Yeah. I think that's a question that I wish the earlier we can ask it, the more awake will be. It's one of those wisdom of impermanence questions. You matters. And as the zen teachers say, the most important thing is remembering the most important thing. So it's almost like that. If you just keep asking, okay, what really matters if you had just a minute or two left in your life, what would this matter? What would be the quality of heart and awareness and beingness that would most matter? Just asking that question, I think, well, inform.
Tara Brach
"tara" Discussed on Tara Brach
"Lieutenant in the army who was forced to take an anger management course because of his temper. And in that he got training and mindfulness and empathy. And he went one evening to the supermarket and filled up his cart. He was very busy, he had to get home and fill in more reports, so he did it really quickly, got in line. Well, the woman in front of him in the line had only two items and she had a little girl and she hands the little girl over to the clerk and their ooing and eyeing and he just got triggered, you know, she's not in the express line like she should be. She's in my line and I'm busy and I have so much to do and just head of steam and then you're going, oh yeah, mindfulness. Pause and he just began this process of just sensing, okay? This is what's happening angry, angry, feeling it in his body, just feeling it and then continuing to feel an incenting under it fear, fear of not getting things done and have his world falling apart. And then bringing a gentleness to that. It's okay. It's okay. Gentle nurturing. More expanded. And so that this woman had left and he was his turn, and he said to the clerk, you know, that little girl was adorable. And she and she said, oh, that's actually my child. That was my mom who brought her my husband was killed in Afghanistan. And so my mom brings the babe over every twice a day, so we have some visiting time. You know, not everyone is suffering in that particular way, but life is hard. I mean, everyone's living with uncertainty and fears. Loss of their body and mind and of others. Failure, sense of failure. You know, that anonymous saying be kind, everyone you meet is fighting a hard struggle. And I often think, what if we could move through this world and pause enough to be in touch with ourselves and then look at the other and kind of as ruby sales puts it just ask inwardly to even that question, where does it hurt? Where does it hurt? You know, as our world continues in crisis, this is the possibility and the hope. I mean, the only thing that will heal us is consciousness. More humans that cultivate a pathway. To this awake, tender heart, the more there can be love in action. Love and action. And that is the true medicine. LR nosh puts it this way. He says, do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be amended, not with time as they say. But with intention, so go, love, intentionally, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you. Um, thank you, Friends. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your attention and now Frank and I are really interested in hearing whatever questions you might have. And it needn't even be a question. It might just be something that you want to speak to that's on your heart and mind now. And just so everyone knows we're in webinar. So we won't be able to see you, but we'll be able to hear you. So I thank you for taking my question. I'm in the process of providing care to my mother who's slowly dying. And I find myself so often very overwhelmed in the moment. And then they pass like waves and I do what I can with the resources that people like yourself have so generously offered to us. But I wonder if you had some counsel for when it's really overwhelming, how to navigate. Yeah. Oh boy. It's hard, isn't it? It's so hard in this. And sometimes, you know, we just have to acknowledge just how difficult it is for us. And step away, actually. Step away into the other room with ourselves, reach out for support for ourselves. Those are very practical things that we can do, of course. But what Tara was speaking about earlier about the man with Alzheimer's, just naming his experience. That can be incredibly powerful for you to do. This is hard. I didn't sign up for this. I'm really scared. Yeah. So naming your experience can be incredibly helpful, of course. Then there's one more thing I want to say in this. When you go out of the room and come back, one comp person in the room can make all the difference. And you can be that comp person. You know, when you move your mom when you turn her in bed, you lend her your back, you use your arms and legs to turn her. You can also lend her the calmness of your mind. And you can open your heart in such a way that she might be inspired to open hers. And then you could be in it together. You can do that in a so. That lives in you. You can have confidence in your good heart. Yeah. Thank you. NASA for the question, Frank, that response because it's so meaningful to so many of us, and I have a question for you. Which is, what is it you most feel like if you could remember or be reminded in those moments, like the most wise and loving part of you could just whisper something in your ear, what are you most wish you could remember in those moments of overwhelm? I guess there's probably two things that come right to my heart and mind. And one is, this is like, this is all okay. This is all normal. This is. How it is. You know, it just kind of a breath of that, you know? Just like, ah, this is okay. And then the other is to just, sorry, what was your question? What would I say to myself or what do you yeah, what would you say or what do you wish you could remember? Oh, remember, yeah. The light and the love that shines out of my mother actually. And that we've had some incredible moments where she just..
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"Well, I'm very happy to be here with my friend Tara. It's good to share this day with you. And maybe a tower you could begin and see where it takes us out. My pleasure and likewise, it's a joy to get to co teach with Frank, who's very dear to my heart. I was looking at the picture of us last time we taught in Washington, D.C.. Really wonderful. And really, so grateful to each of you who are here. And I'm imagining you here since I don't get to see you, which I love being able to see and feel you as much as possible. So thank you. Thank you from around the globe coming from around the globe. And it feels so important. You know, gathering like this to explore presence, explore that silence and that space that can hold, you know, with heart, all that's going on in this world and these current times and so aware of the intensity, just went ahead and looked at the front pages today, you know? The violence, all the refugees, waves of pandemic, and then of course the earth suffering. You know, one friend last described the last few years that she could have seen the land, it was like being in an airplane and just navigating one storm after another. And there was, it wasn't safe and stable enough to land. And you know, it can feel that way when we're in reactivity that we're just not able to arrive in real life, can't contact, can't feel intimacy or just in motion reacting. And you know, even when we're not feeling strong emotion, you might notice there's still that habitual tendency to tench against what's next. I'm sure you recognized it. I'm thinking of one woman, a mother who sent her son a text message and it said, start worrying details to follow. And that's kind of the way it is. We're ready for what's next. And as most of you realize, it's an illusion that life ever settles. I mean, we know that. There's always stressors and life's not going the way we think it should go and the seasons keep changing with their creativity and their beauty and their challenges and their losses. And oh my, the losses, they've just been really big in these last few years. So many have been going through it. To me, the deep inquiry. How in the midst of all this, do we find that refuge? That space of silence and present, that space of loving awareness, that's our home. How do we find that? So that the losses and the changes and the fears and the anger and whatever's coming up can be held with a real tenderness. With a compassion and with the wisdom, and I want to highlight one of the major challenging currents that many are facing that need space and holding. You've probably noticed that the more stressed the more reactive we get, anxious or angry. And with that, we're conditioned to turn against ourselves. So not only are we anxious and angry, but we don't like ourselves. We don't like how we're feeling, how we're acting. This is a really deep conditioning. And I've seen during pandemic years, along with all the uncertainties and loneliness, the fear, these really deep feelings of personal failure. And, you know, if we were, if I could see you right now, I'd say how many I'd ask for hand raised just a sense, you know, how many of you are with me on that that you can sense that feeling of falling short and parenting or I'm falling short in relationships or work. I'm not contributing, I call it the trance of unworthiness because it's a trance. It's this, it just affects our entire reality, the self aversion and doubt, I remember, I first wrote about it in my book radical acceptance and I remember teaching at a Buddhist university naropa. And giving a workshop on radical acceptance and there was a huge poster of me and the workshop and so on. And the caption at the bottom under my picture was something is wrong with me. That's because that's the deep belief is something's wrong with me. So Friends, we're talking about the ways that we leave home. We leave that that boundless formless presence that hard and awareness and lock into a very small sense of a self that separate and angry and fearful and not okay. I often think the true sickness is really homesickness. When we're hijacked, you know, when we're in that reactivity, when we're in that trance, what we most need is access to presence. And as you know, that's when it's most difficult. That's when we forget. That's when we forget how to come back. And so what I'd like to do is explore a pathway back, a pathway of mindfulness and compassion that is summarized in the acronym range, and even if you're not English speaking each of what each of the letters stands for is an easy to remember pathway in English, rain stands for recognize, see what's going on. Allow. Just allow it to be there. I kind of say to myself, this belongs just like any other wave in the ocean. Recognize and allow, and then investigate means deep and attention, since somatically how it's expressing in the body, really feel it, and that's the intimate contact that comes when we investigate. And then nurture is the natural tender self compassion that comes that we can hold it with. And when we move through those steps of recognize allow, investigate and nurture, it opens us back to that formless presence. That's our home. The beginning, though, these first two steps, I'm going to go through it a little with you. The first step is to pause when you're in reactivity, just pause. Some of you might remember Victor frankel's most the famous line that between the stimulus and the response, there is a space and in that space is your power and your freedom. So we pause. We create a little space there. And then recognize, okay, what's happening right here? And can I allow it? I'll share one experience that has stayed with me forever. It was just happened at a retreat many years ago. A man was attending who was experiencing Alzheimer's and he was also a psychologist who had been a psychologist in a meditator.
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"Pain? Free from suffering. Just since we are Friends, but there's a belonging. A deep, sweet, beautiful belonging. Between you and all these beings and really all beings. That it's possible to live from that heart space that knows we are friends with all beings. Living a lion, compassionate. And where we're misaligned, it's possible to bring our forgiveness, our care, our interest. To continue widening the circles. In a way that heals and frees us and all beings. May all beings everywhere realize their essence as loving awareness. They all beings live from that love, live from that awareness. May there be increasing compassion and injustice and peace on our earth. And they are earth flourish. May all beings everywhere awaken and be free. You can stay and blessings, thank you, beloved. Thank you, Friends, for being part of this. Thank you, Tara. Thank you for being a part of what I, my podcast as well, and for being such a dear, just as such a dear teacher and dear friend, I'm so grateful. Blessings, placings..
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"Of protein in our world that we think that we need more than we do. But that's my personal opinion. I think that, again, if you are directed by physicians or whoever is around you, your healthcare provider, and they're saying that you should eat meat. I think that you take care of yourself. You make the decisions that you need to make. You know, you make that decision. And but again, having a real awareness around it. And it was interesting what you said, Tara from the beginning about when you got that instruction you did it. And it hurts your heart, and then you started numbing out..
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"So but in the contemporary Buddhism, I wouldn't claim myself as a Buddhist, but definitely intrigued and interested in it. What I see is more like a personal Salvation and liberation, which is by no means less than anything else. But I would see that I think the kind of lost the original intention of the where he actually acted in terms of reducing the suffering. I think my question is more like directly linked to what the previous personal is talking about. That collective activism. I think that is kind of lost on Buddhism. So I was just wondering what is your thoughts on thoughts on that? Thank you. I agree with you. I do. I feel like, especially in the west, when Buddhism was first brought here, it was brought into a very individualistic capitalistic hierarchical male dominance, and not all that's different from the east, but the individualistic is. And that the waking up is that who we are is not who we think we are or not if our identity is with this individual body mind and its Salvation we're on the wrong track. The true Salvation is waking up to realize our collective awareness, the love that is really our source and act on behalf of the whole, the greater good. So I'm agreeing with you. And I see that as the trajectory that's happening. And it's slow. And as the points out, it may be too slow for the human species and other non human animals to make it. But we have to just keep on caring and trying. Thank you so much to dear. Thank you, sunnier. Yeah, so this theme around the individual and the collective is such an interesting one. That is also a hot topic. And as you're saying about how we in the west have taken the Dharma and made it kind of made it adapted it to our dominant culture, west pull yourself up by your bootstraps and everything's going to be fine kind of society and how to I think it's one of the turnings that's happening right now is toward a more collective. So yeah, thank you. For those questions. So Jill has a question for you Tara if we can bring her up on screen as a fourth grade elementary public school teacher. First of all, pause..
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"So it's like we are just in such different worlds and he just had such a glow about him serene Ness and his whole family was there helping. Their home and the whole shepherding thing. And I was like, wow, you know, we really have different points of cultural reference about life and joy and happiness and meaning and we've all gotten and I was thinking about this today, Tara, I was thinking about how people from other cultures are quite different. So what I mean, people from different cultures, I'm like, wow, they're from a reference. They're way of seeing the world. They're seeing the world through their eyes. It gives me a very different perspective about life. And it's kind of liberating because I realized that all of my beliefs, thoughts of what I should do, my notions, beliefs, ideas, about how life should be, what I should be, what I should be doing or not doing are so programmed in grain and never really begun to question that more question those thoughts about them. And I don't see you sort of ask me before you start the podcast. What am I doing now? I'm really active process of really examining those beliefs assumptions, my thoughts. Around everything around my life around love around work around where I want to be, what I want to be doing, you know, and it's a very it's a very confronting experience because rather than just being in your life, you're being witness to what's actually happening and you're going, wait a minute. Is there a different way of thinking? And it's sort of what your work is really about. It's inviting people into a different way of thinking about themselves and their life and what keeps them from joy and happiness and love. And I love the way you're describing it, whether we call it the practice of pausing and breaking out of our routines by traveling and experiencing other cultures or pausing and breaking out of our routines by meditating and just bearing witness to the patterns in our own psyche. Our parsing and breaking out of our patterns by being with people who are different from us, because we live in cocoons of people that are very similar, most of us. Yeah, exactly. And it's only when we start truly engaging and really listening, like really curious to say what's it like being you? Yeah. That we start getting some a real flash of, oh, I'm living inside that particular box. So yeah. I mean, that's why it's so hard for many people to recognize their own racism. Of course we're all racist. We're all programmed in a certain way. And yet, it's not unless we start really investigating and engaging with people who see our cash system from a different angle that we really get where we are in it. And it's so true..
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"So unpack that a little beer. Yeah so so. Progress is And here's a little quick illustration so say. There's a a tribe in indigenous tribe. They're experienced hardship and persecution and then they migrate to find a new place to live. They come up into this beautiful edge of these mountain ranges and there's a plateau and they decide they're going to settle there and the that generation spends decades clearing all the trees so that their children when can just look out and see fastness of creation. So progress is when we in the world. Leave the world better for those who come so the fact that those kids didn't have to clear those trees progress that they have to open their eyes and see incarnation. They have to open their hearts and feel that everyone every generation has to go through the same thresholds in journeys. And that's in. No one can shortcut or take away or it's our term. It's our turn to do the best we can. Whether we're gonna tend that person with a broken leg or walk right by them to the top of the mountain. So i believe more in in the endless journey of incarnation than progress. And i feel so that that we're not humanities not sending some mountain. We're all the same six inches from heaven in the gutter. It's this way so i do believe Not not you know will we will we. In our incarnation outlast. The damage we've done. I don't know maybe not. But i do believe that. That that's spirits embody in time on art will continue and i do believe that we will you. Every generation has a different horrible iteration to face in try to transcend whether it was world war two or world war one or you know and and you know and i don't ask i don't ask why anymore i only ask how why is maddening rapids hall rapid tall. Yeah but what you're saying about the how which is and we can take it to this lifetime right here instead of looking at progress searcher jackassery as much as justice moment. Incarnation means.
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"But if i ask not for your conclusions when i say this is so i see abortion is really important to you. Tell me the story of how that is so where does that. Where the roots of that for you. We may never agree but we will start to hear each other again. We will start to see the humanness not the conclusions important that we go in to seek to understand what matters to each other and that at least create that basic human bridge of what what we care about that allows us to be in relationship to be in the circle together and some people are just not able to do that so and i love. I love what you're addressing. Is you know really how to have those conversations if at all possible and then there's the other piece of others who are suffering but fueled different from us not like they're our enemy but that we're just not able to really pay attention close enough. We have such a distracted society. So haiti was on the front pages. And people gave money to haiti. And i think haiti has vanished from consciousness and the people in haiti are still in devastation. And i also think of our spec- ism which which really is a very deep one for me that we have a hierarchy of human life being valuable and the torture of humans is prohibited by international law and eighty five percent of people in this country are against cruelty to other animals and yet ninety five percent eat meat and it's increasing as developing countries get more prosperous and so what happens is that factory farming is designed to be out of our view. Look industry does a huge amount to hide that reality from us in. That's right in our backyard just like concentration camps you mentioned your heritage know during world war. Two humans are tormenting other beings. And here's the thing. Marcus that it takes intention to look if we're going to care really takes intention and so it just something that i am practicing a mile knife that to keep making the bridges like when i go out for walks all often look at a tree and just say we are friends and as soon as i posit that i'll feel the truth of that connection or with a squirrel or with my dog are with you know when i imagine a pig chicken going to slow you know we are.
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"Walk. And i remember being going to a supermarket and watching. Everybody walked from their cars to into the store and thinking they don't think twice about that and i'm having to figure out how to go slowly enough again myself into the store. So how many of us have been caught in something and felt alone and and others are living in an entirely different realm and not relating. So i was hoping you could speak to that. Share a little of what you shared in that. Amazing thank you. I think that you know it's of course it's very human that we would feel some guilt or or a sense of of if i'm blessed to be okay in this moment and others aren't but i feel like in. This is the the wholeness again in the that we we need all of it and that it does no good if everyone is suffering at once you know the one of the great mysteries just by nature is light always finds a crack to fill. And if we're all cracks and were never light were good is that and and so you know we will take turns we will take turns being unable to move or unable to do something or to being confused or being dark and so when we're blessed to have a moment of wholeness or a moment of resilience um i feel more and more like. We're called to embody that wholeheartedly. So that we will have resources to share. And i think more importantly than i i've only ever been kind of if you're if you're in a blast moment and i'm suffering as long as you're still hold holding that there are those suffering. That's still healing. It's when people run from suffering. I think this is part of the distortion of our society of our can. Certainly the You know the in the declaration of independence. The alienable rights. You know but we've kind of made a cartoon of that that we have it at. We're entitled to happiness. Were entitled to the thoroughness of this amazing experience of being a spirit nevada in time on earth. We're not entitled to happiness entitled to anyone potato. that's like freezing the different parts of the wheel of life. And and so i feel like often people and we've seen it in the pan-demic suffering can bring people closer or will also if people in their fear they'll turn away turn away and and tried to insist that it's not happening. We see that right at this. Whole section of our society has blinders on. It's not happening. it's not happening. Well yeah it is. It is in in in. This comes down to the ultimate thing of permanence because ultimately it frightens. People are bad. They're gonna die and we will but you know Will also live. And i think i think that was one of the mysteries for me in almost dying. Is that not life and death. Where so much feel so much more one fabric than i ever imagined.
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"On his company and and so for me. Compassion comes out of this mystery that it seems like life has been made just difficult enough that we need each other to. I think to ensure the journey of love. And i and i feel like compassion involves this truth telling also that we've been we've been touching on. I think that once we can admit what's true than we can truly be there for each other. I think that we often and this is natural enough but we often love in the way we'd like to be long but that's not always what's needed compassion and taking care of ourselves and others and seeing things as they are they all of course right there. They all appear in life all all tangled as set of one one set of roots in. You know i remembered that i. I learned this years ago in a previous marriage in my inlaws who i knew for decades. My father-in-law was a farmer. Lifelong farmer in his his sister was also just part of the fifth farm family toward they were both in their early eighties and she was dying from cancer and she was in the hospital and this man who was would give you the shirt off his back with very taciturn. You know hardly wouldn't be a conversation like this with us feel very uncomfortable. He didn't speak much but all of a sudden he was very present insisting that his sister never be left alone around the clock. And i immediately felt. Oh you've you've just told me what you want when it's your turn. But no one ever asked his sister. She said. Leave me alone. An awesome solitude. And i realized you know that that what a teacher that that yeah we often so i think the first thing in compassion for me is to to ask what is really needed and not assume. It's what i would want..
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"Role stopped me from feeling intimate with any it was like that was the price i would look good. I would get the kind of fixes of okay or worthy respected but then it came. The price was distance. And part of what. I started finding out with the opportunity when i didn't perform well to not move away from that experience. And just like you said to realize. I wasn't going to die. You know i was around the next day and not only that people didn't hate me or start disrespecting me so what you're saying is so resonant that it is arrest exquisite because it opens up to us who we really are and the way we start taking it more and more as we do it a little. We play an edge and discover actually. There's more freedom in the moment of not doing our old strategy that we open up to some creative mystery in those moments. When i feel that the being authentic in such doorway and such a practice you know it is kind of the the emotional real emotional version of of practice of seeing things as they are in honoring man and owning that and it only for me leads to more more solid foundation and more and more transparency one of the one of the images that i think is so powerful for me with with the pandemic is that you know the jewish tradition the word sabbath literally means the one day. We don't turn one thing into another. And i feel like we've been forced into a global sabah and can't manipulate. We can't even dream too far ahead. And so we've been forced our turn to see the miracle in the ordinary to see the beauty in everything and everyone and and And i think you know said if we truly thomas merton new we truly be held each other. We fall down in worship each other and so here. We are forced to to say no. The dream isn't tomorrow. We can't defer life or our best selves or ourselves. It's all right here and that was one other like a powerful thing for me with the pandemic is or did i came upon us. I was very. I had a lot of echoes from my cancer journey An particularly this moment. When i was diagnosed i like anyone else. I went to this appointment with a doctor. Who told me i had cancer and i was alarmed frightened in thought. You must have the wrong folder. Can't be me. And but then when i left that office that day the door i had come through for out. Appointment was gone. No way back to life before that appointment and i also feel that humanity has been forced through that doorway with the pandemic. The old world is.
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"With natalie goldberg and just to say that I've only recently very recently connected with natalie personally. But i have loved and admired her from a distance for decades really actually since the nineteen nineties. When i read her book writing down the bones. Many of you've heard of it. It impacted me incredibly. So natalie's written fifteen books and has inspired countless people in how they approach writing and really more fully. how they live a spiritual life so Natalie is also a painter and has practiced in for over forty years and is a wonderful teacher. She's offered workshops on writing as a practice around the globe. So natalie on behalf of our community a really big heartfelt to thank you. I'm actually thrilled. My little hard is bitter. Pattering is likewise. I've known about tara forever. And i've heard she's a really good teacher which is so important to me and that. She's a fine meditation teacher and she doesn't skirt around psychology that she's deeply rooted in it so the combination is unbeatable married cited. Well it's fun this is we finally get to like intersect. And we've these lives. And so i wanted to start by saying that. You really have awakened whole generation of us to the power writing as a spiritual practice and speaking personally. It takes me a really really long time to complete a book and you really helped me understand that. Of course we have listen inwardly in order to really be coming from that present so i kind of wanted to start here. If that's okay with you rating as a meditation a spiritual practice and just to ask you just to share with us. What makes it a spiritual practice. Well you know we can all be stuck on the zolfo. Do you call him. Sophos in your christian whatever. We can't just be stuck on them all the time so i used rioting as a way to translate the dorm but you couldn't use painting or running or grocery shopping but okay..
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"So natalie on behalf of our community a really big heartfelt to thank you. I'm actually thrilled. My little hard is bitter. Pattering is likewise. I've known about tara forever. And i've heard she's a really good teacher which is so important to me and that. She's a fine meditation teacher and she doesn't skirt around psychology that she's deeply rooted in it so the combination is unbeatable married cited. Well it's fun this is we finally get to like intersect. And we've these lives. And so i wanted to start by saying that. You really have awakened whole generation of us to the power writing as a spiritual practice and speaking personally. It takes me a really really long time to complete a book and you really helped me understand that. Of course we have listen inwardly in order to really be coming from that present so i kind of wanted to start here. If that's okay with you rating as a meditation a spiritual practice and just to ask you just to share with us. What makes it a spiritual practice. Well you know we can all be stuck on the zolfo. Do you call him. Sophos in your christian whatever. We can't just be stuck on them all the time so i used rioting as a way to translate the dorm but you couldn't use painting or running or grocery shopping but okay. I'll come back to writing.
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"One of the direct gateway to pression news waking up our attention in a relaxed way through the body you might begin by sensing the area of the brow. The is if you could smile into the is since the outside corners of the is uplifted. Some the is soft the brow smooth receptive to this and sation aliveness in the region of the is you might let that receptivity spread feeling the scalp and the skull sensations. That arrived slight smile at the mouth. The inside of the mouth smiling and receptivity to this stations and the time. The gums the teeth the lips meta magin throat filling the neck feeling in receptive the sensations and alive in in the neck
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"Greetings and anonymous day. And thank you for being with us. Tonight is really a. I my husband. Jonathan vows to many of you know as a spiritual and meditation teacher will be interviewing me. So we've never done this before. We'll see how it goes. The focus will be key themes from my new book trusting the gold. So enjoy and i'll see you in a moment. Well this is a delight. Welcome it's good to have you here. And i am totally delighted to have this conversation with my wonderful wife. Tara brach we met right after she finished her first book. Radical acceptance and since then i have been privy to observe her in the birthing process of multiple other books Radical compassion a true refuge and most recently the book trusting the gold. So we had this opportunity to talk a little bit about A little bit about this book and what it means and Some really really wonderful explorations. I think A you'll find interesting. So welcome tara. It's great great to have this time with you. I guess the first question i have is what instigated this one. How did it come from an idea to something that that drew your focus. Well in a way this book was hugli unintentional kind of backed into it like this unintended pregnancy. Because my staff here. We're just collecting anecdotes and quotes and things that people had requested. And we thought we'd have an informal collection but it grew into a book that sounds troop produced and fantastic illustrator vicky alvarez kind of brought it to life with her she's just a beautiful just beautiful illustrations So yeah that's that's how it came about. And as i was working on deepening the stories and putting it out the theme became so clear that it all was really coming down to. What does it mean to trust to trust our own. Goodness and to see trust the goodness in others and related the beauty and goodness that lives through all of so that became a very real and compelling theme especially especially given the times where a mistrust roles i mean we're there's so much polarization and real violence in the way people regard others that it seems it just feels like one of the most important places for our attention from my standpoint. It was it was just really interesting to to watch from the outside starting with oh here a couple of stories and here. Well here's an illustrator. Wouldn't this be. Wouldn't this be kind of fun and easy and then it really turned into like a really really deep dive into a bringing bringing these stories alive in a way that would be meaningful so the end result. Are you happy with it. Really happy with it. yeah. I didn't expect it to be what it was. It came out to be this book. That i like holding and that i find beauty and i keep wanting to give it away. I hope other people want to give it away. 'cause it's will the feedback i've gotten is that people find the story's really relatable to and they just kind of help us remember what matters so. Yeah i'm actually really excited to have it out there. Know it's beautiful Just to have it in hand. It's like field good in your hands. I love the cover. It's it's really really nice..