Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- Living with a Courageous Heart in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Oren Jay Sofer
The pace of change is speeding up and much of the news we receive is alarming. More than ever, we need the inner reflections and meditations that help us connect with our capacities for clarity, bravery and openheartedness. This is what Tara explores with Oren Jay Sofer, whose latest book is entitled: Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love (2023.)
Oren teaches mindfulness, meditation and non violent communication, and his prior book is bestselling Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication (2018.)
Please Note: At timestamp 57:41, Oren mistakenly attributes an article to George Lakey. The author of this article is Robert Reich.
Learn more about Oren Jay Sofer and order books at: www.orenjaysofer.com
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Thank you for addressing the suffering of the Palestinians, to call to respond to what is needed, not demonizing, that learning works against dehumanizing. Gratitude!
Tara, thank you for introducing me to Oren, and for mentioning the issues in Isra.el Pale.stine and historical world violent suffering.
I feel the cognitive dissonance is deafening at present, and that there's a crisis of spirituality in the structures that hold society together, and the left-brained, patriarchal politics that leads it.
It feels like more spiritual teachers should be speaking up, so thank you for being brave.
Like you say, the fear and pain fractures us, when really we are one people on one world, leaving us feeling isolated, taking sides, and scared to speak up about the suffering of everyone, and the actions we can all take, however small.
Like you also say, I too, find much comfort, joy and empowerment in community. When I connect with others and we we really listen to each other, real magic, and action, happens.
May there be peace and an end to suffering for all of us, everywhere.
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Amazing.. so rich.. so grateful, thank you.❤
So well spoken. Thank you Oren and Tara!
The Mahayana tradition is based in compassion, in helping others & even foregoing enlightenment in order to continually be reborn to continue to help. Especially those in bad situations. While recognizing all people have the same potential of a Buddha nature, nonetheless we do not hide from taking action. Activism of course is part of that, just in a respectful, not anger-driven or self serving way. This is the big challenge. ❤😌
‘Connect with anything that nourishes us’ …22.00 beautiful. Thank you. 🙏🏼💙
Thank you Tara Brach madam for your valuable guidance. I love you. Gratitude ocean of love light peace joy oneness expandedness acceptance understanding and appreciation
Love this. As I've explored eastern concepts, such as around Advaita Vedanta, I understand their idea that activism doesn't have a place in the life of a spiritually evolved being, but based on my own experience, I can't rest there. Maybe I have been so deeply influenced by the Western world, where consciousness cannot be separated from activism, but it is also a personal impulse. (Note: just because the West is individualistic generally, we should acknowledge that we are highly activist, especially in communities of consciousness, religious or not).
We can't end suffering, but if we can acknowledge our power as creators, we must not be so passive and try to jump in to fix our systems.
Presently, I am focused on family court and the exploitation there with negative impacts on children, but the environment is a big one for me too.
There are many voiceless. If you have skills and aren't using them to assist, then they are wasted. I don't mean to create guilt. It's just a fact. Apathy exists because you are either busy surviving or busy maintaining comfort. I don't ever want to be so comfortable that I waste my skills not taking action. We need balance between refuge and action. 100% refuge exists after death. We aren't embodied just to experience the bliss of afterlife.
We also need to find peace within ourselves before we can really effectively help others ..otherwise we are always colouring the help with our own defilements of greed, anger and delusion.
It’s much easier to try and fix others than ourselves and as the Buddha said, the highest thing we can do is realise eternal peace within and then we really can help those who are open to it. 🙏🏼☺
Namaste 🌿🕊
It's 4:30 our only hope of combating evil, is to do more good
This gentleman had me at the moment where he was describing how his child makes friends with everything out of doors, the plants, the rocks, the animals, and how I can do that as well. I am coming from a family of trauma, I have almost no relationships with family at this time and very few friendships being a 53-year-old woman. But then suddenly in the middle of making that connection, he says, let's also have an awareness that it's all in decline and disappearing. How is that helpful? How is it helpful for me to be trying to connect with the outside world, making the connection that I am not a single person but a part of a bigger thing, but at the same time, dropping in the awareness that corporations are destroying our world and I am utterly powerless to do anything about it? I mean seriously! Save it. Enough with the guilt. I was in the middle of making a nice strong connection that I am part of a bigger thing, and suddenly you want me to have this awareness that the natural world is disappearing before our eyes. What exactly do you expect one little person out here to do about it? There is nothing I can do about it, so then why do you constantly steer me back to having a huge awareness about how horrible it is??? That awareness is pointless let me tell you. There is a time and a place for thinking about things like that, and when you steer somebody into an awareness that they are part of a bigger thing, not so alone, that moment is *not* the moment to tell them that the world is disappearing as we know it.
I will be impressed when people look at the atrocities that occurred right here in America in plantation after plantation instead of jumping on a plane to take other people's measure.
"Forced work camps", The 1619 Project
Who did he attribute the quote "once there's seeing, there must be doing." Love that!
Thich Nhat Hanh
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So well said. ❤
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