What is Love Asking from Us?: Dr. Gabor Maté & Tara Brach
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- 'Where Olive Trees Weep' June 6-27, 2024 whereolivetreesweep.com
This conversation is released with the premiere of the documentary 'Where Olive Trees Weep', along with 21 days of talks on Palestine with leading historians, spiritual teachers, trauma therapists, poets, artists and more.
Watch this full video and all 21-days of this collection of talks around "Where Olive Trees Weep": we.scienceandnonduality.com/o...
What is Love Asking from Us? Reflections on Gaza and the Bodhisattva Path
With Dr. Gabor Maté & Tara Brach
Dr. Gabor Maté and the Buddhist teacher Tara Brach come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. They will explore the question of what spirituality means in the face of injustice and suffering, and why many spiritual teachers have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza. Drawing from the Bodhisattva path-the commitment to alleviate suffering for all beings-Dr. Maté and Tara Brach reflect on the importance of compassion, solidarity, and engaged spirituality in responding to the oppression and trauma experienced by the Palestinian people. This conversation is an invitation to examine our own spiritual practices and to consider how we can embody the Bodhisattva spirit in today's world, breaking the silence and standing in solidarity with those who are suffering.
'Where Olive Trees Weep' is a poignant, heartbreaking film about the struggles and resilience of Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. We follow, among others, Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. It features Dr. Gabor Maté as he offers trauma-healing work to Palestinian women tortured in Israeli prisons.
The program expands on the themes explored in the film and provides a larger historical and social context. Access to the program and the film is by donation.
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I am so happy to see Tara here and not being silent.
beautiful conversation, again, thank you Dr Gabor Mate, Tara and SAND for this medicine !❤
Thankyou. 🙏 Deep gratitude and respect to you both.
May everyone know they have so much power within.... to serve them in realising the truth. May we free all people from suffering by being with all that is.
I'm taking that question into my heart "What is love asking here?" Two profound teachers here, as a certain percentage of humanity will evolve and raise the consciousness bit by bit. With gratitude ❤❤❤
The last anonymous prayer offered by Tara Brach transcribed :
'There will be a day and the children of all genders, colors and faiths will follow the path of heart.
They will speak the language of the Earth and understand the language of heaven. They will live as part of the great Circle of life and then peace will come.
There will be a day and the children of all genders, colors and faiths will follow the path of heart.
Their hearts will walk in trust and they will sanctify all form of living beings and plants. Together they will pray to the sacredness, that is everywhere, connected to the source of life and then peace will come.'
thank you for transcribing it here!!!
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How beautiful! ❤️
Thank you ❤🙏🏽
Open heart..soft front
Strong back..
..with..
.discerning wisdom
Daily practice...in every moment.
Thankyou Tara!!! 🙏
I was silenced and humbled within as i listened and felt deeply of the woman's words in the doco....
"She wasnt a good enough camerman/journalist or sister in holding her brother when he was wounded"
Her disillusionment was so real and it is just so cruel that she should suffer this inhuman choice....this inhuman way of surviving and way of life.
Thank you so much for this beautiful talk! I have been so incredibly sad incredibly frustrated and oh so so angry! Angry at everyone condoning and enabling this to happen!
It feels like all this anger and sadness in myself is actually hurting my heart.
I did feel a softening while listening to this beautiful talk and I thank you so much for that!
Thank You both ❤
Her msg resonates deeply. I was raised a Muslim and I'm Palestinian/Lebanese. At an early age I understood suffering and I thought myself compassionate...until I woke up to my practice of eating meat and the cognitive dissonance I was living...We owe it to those without a voice to speak for them. If we can avoid suffering, why wouldn't we? Compassion is a gift we can give all those who live. And together we can heal. For the Israeli apologists who stand up for gay rights but who support murder of Palestinians, they are unseeing...their compassion cup has a hole in it that's in need of fixing. Until then, we will all struggle. For hope. For compassion. For all.
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Thanks to these conversations and the integrity of people like Gabor, Tara, Zaya, Maurizio and crew, each time I reach out in my own small attempt at having a discussion around the situation in Gaza, and Palestine as a whole, I am constantly learning how better to provide space for the other, without compromising the truth and letting my anger, fear and judgement get in the way of staying true to that, whilst keeping my kindness and my deeper humanity towards others intact in the process. What an immeasurably valuable lesson to be learning! I’m so grateful, thank you ❤ This is also my first encounter with bodhisattva. It sounds like something I have been unknowingly trying to practice since I was small and something I need to be more learned in embodying. It is not lost on me that in a previous discussion over the past couple of days, I used the words 'arming our souls' and altthough I was conscious of the conflict I felt within over that choice of words, as I typed them, I was unable at the time to better resolve the impulses behind that conflict and so I wrote those conflicted words anyway.. today's conversation has really helped me shine a light on that tiny experience and so many others, particularly around the events in Gaza and related experiences, so thank you so much xx
As we wait to find just the right words, words that will maintain our own status and comfort, more people suffer and die.
A wise person in frustration said, after another lamented they couldn't find their purpose in life, "Help whoever is on your right, and on your left. That is your purpose!"
Another person's words have stuck with me: "Happiness does not come to those who pick and choose."
When I drop the worry about what others will think if I take action to relieve suffering, the ability to do it flows. It feels so natural to give another human being the space to ask for what they need to survive physically and emotionally. When we ask questions and really listen deeply to the answers, it has less to do with revenge and more to do with being witnessed; more to do also with preventing the preventable harms. Which of course is love and vulnerability.
Thank you for the depth of my heart. Two of my favourite inspirational teachers at the same time - double treat and an incredible talk, desperately needed right now witnessing the brutal horror in Gaza and Palestine over the last few months, which seems to be escalating when we had hoped for PEACE. I will continue to try to have a firm back and open heart, try not to 'other' sides and pray for an urgent CeaseFireNow - permanently. Much love, and huge respect from Ireland, Suzanne ps. I will also keep asking 'What is LOVE asking of me? What is LOVE asking of us?
As I see the numerous comments on chat about the inappropriateness of facial expression or of not displaying anguish, I am reminded just how caught in our single sided stories we all are.
The way one expresses is beautiful and purposeful, of itself.
One reason that we interpret emotion so critically is because we were "corrected" so much as kids.
Don't be angry now. Don't be sad now. Don't be happy now.
If I get busy learning about myself, taking action in my community, instead of criticizing others or trying to get people to conform by shaming, more progress is made.
These knee-jerk reactions are primal instincts with little reflection.
Intuitive response is, by it's nature, more calm and joyful. Less anguished. It expresses not suffering but understanding.
In the moment of seeing one lash out in violence toward another, intervening is paramount, but not in such a way as to beget more violence for the next person to endure.
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Micah 6:8-kindness, justice, humility.
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Can you please send a link to the beautiful poem Tara read towards the end of the session. It was a prayer for the children. "children of all genders colors and face will follow the path of heart they will speak the language of the Earth - etc". Thank you.
It is right and understandable that there absolutely cannot be peace ever without justice. Love does not guide, rule or lead the Israelis. The fact that is and remains is the determined biology of sapiens. We Great Apes cannot change. We sapiens can only be changed. We are determined creatures. Only the plasticity of the brain is our hope and potential and possibility. This is just the hard fact of life.
So, my question is how can we bring about that activation of our plasticity in order to achieve change for better behavior? This is the cutting edge of the coal face, standing at the furthrest edge of the great vast abyss of the unknown that our knowledge has brought us. There arr 20 new discoveries made every day in empirical scientific knowledge and we need it now more than ever before.
These so-called spiritual leaders who don't want to jeopardize their status just shows the shallowness of their practice of the spirituality they profess. As an ordained Christian minister, I am called to speak for and stand with the most vulnerable of the world. Doing that from a place of loving kindness toward those with whom I serve is part of the call.
Afflict the comfortable.
Comfort the afflicted.
Thank you. From New Zealand. ( Id love to understand why Tara and co support Biden?If that is true? I could never vote for him -or trump for that matter).
I guess when you’re faced with inadequate options, the best you can do in the immediate term is choose the lesser evil whilst continuing to act for better options in the future
@@MyWits_End I dont think that choosing the lesser evil is a good strategy personally. Its giving consent still, RFK would get my vote if I was a U.S citizen....just because he is about the only choice that MIGHT be worth a try....and I could not vote for trump or biden. They are both proven bad, lesser or not.
@@megm.c4026 It’s not an easy choice esp when there is so much at stake and none of the choices are compatible with your values.
I assume you mean you feel you are condoning a person’s policies if you vote for them and while there’s an element of truth in that, the other side of the coin is choosing not to vote at all, which is also giving consent, but in a less intentional way. It’s consent by omission. Consent by choosing not to take action even though your action can still effect the outcome from being better than it might otherwise be.
Here in Australia we have compulsory voting. People who don’t wish to make a choice will often submit a ‘donkey’ vote but I feel like that is also being complicit in the outcome. At least if I vote for what I feel is the better option for the country going forward, I know I’ve done all I can to try and stop the person who will cause the most damage from being in the drivers seat.
Edit: our political system works differently here so I honestly don’t know what I would do if I was in the US
Gabor is a very special man but his attempts to control others and what wants to happen is a sign of a deeply traumatised person.
Give up the belief of two powers in the world. Ramesh Balsekar.