Making The Whole World Your Friend, with Tara Brach

Making The Whole World Your Friend, with Tara Brach [2023-03-01]
A wonderful translation of the Pali word Metta is friendliness. This talk looks at friendliness through an evolutionary lens, and explores ways we can cultivate a more open heart.
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[@jan141965]

Dear Tara, I have been a student for many years now and your loving wise teachings continue to cleanse old habits and to bring in life/joy affirming experiences into my life. I love how you share your own blocks to the heart. You help me to feel “It’s not just me.”

[@jasmines6768]

I have experienced social anxiety throughout my life and I have become more conscious of the threatening lens associated with that experience. I often felt like I wasn't my own friend either and I longed for the feeling of friendship. After I watched this video I became more aware of how much I project this onto the world and people around me. Life changing concept. Thank you Tara

[@4SweetFeet]

Lovely. I just posted a note to self in car as I listened, in my 'calming time' after visiting aged mother: * We're in this world together. * We're connected. * Remember and feel that. * Be friendly.

[@108lukas]

Friendly Blessings to all my mates Here Now! 😊❤😊 XX

[@ericadeleeuw]

In the Netherlands when we go for a walk and pass by other people we greet each other with a friendly smile and a friendly hello sometimes evrn smaltalk about the weather. It's a habit among us Dutchies that I really apreciate. It gives a feeling of connection.

[@movepauserestore]

Very beautiful talk from the heart Tara, so much kindness you bring into this world

[@sammora777]

Thank you for this beautiful talk…you’ve been such an amazing teacher in my journey. I’m a tica 🇨🇷 and I feel very grateful for that, I’m glad you had such a heart opening experience here. Blessings and pura vida! 🙏🌟

[@gc2137]

So glad you were able to visit the place of my family's birth and heritage, Tara! Costa Rica is amazing.....Pura Vida! 🇹🇭

[@FrankKlaver]

From Anam Ćara - Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition. This metaphor of friendship can be grounded in the clay nature of the human body. When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together. It is as if millions of years before the silence of nature broke, your lover’s clay and your clay lay side by side. Then in the turning of the seasons, your one clay divided and separated. You began to rise as distinct clay forms, each housing a different individuality and destiny. Without even knowing it, your secret memory mourned your loss of each other. While your clay selves wandered for thousands of years through the universe, your longing for each other never faded. This metaphor helps to explain how in the moment of friendship two souls suddenly recognize each other. It could be a meeting on the street, or at a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is the flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. There is an awakening between you, a sense of ancient knowing. Love opens the door of ancient recognition. You enter. You come home to each other at last. As Euripides said, “Two friends, one soul.”

[@jannybranciforte9295]

Thank you Tara for this magnificent talk. I am so grateful for your gifts of wisdom to all of us. You are a guiding light. 🙏🌠 .

[@erikarfeuille2528]

My life's motto has always been: "Friendliness and politeness are like the air in a bicycle tire. It costs nothing but everything rolls a lot more smoothly with it."

[@108lukas]

Wow❗ Thanx Tara that was beautiful and uplifting!❤

[@lindamilne3166]

🪷Tara, Thank You for Your Exquisite Gifts of Love, Teachings and Wisdom! I look forward to Practice Loving Kindness and Friendliness for All Beings!

[@history2relations]

THANK YOU. ALL MY LOVE.

[@sara7aldys906]

Thank you teacher! ☕️ 🫖 😂❤

[@susydyson1750]

Thank you Tara your path guiding us to open hearted friendliness so inspiring ❤😅😅

[@RecoverYourSoul]

Survival of the friendliest 💛 so grateful for your continued teaching of compassion. Thank you

[@susydyson1750]

And always with that touch of good humor that makes one laugh and sparks memory

[@lynbeck2359]

Namaste 🙏

[@lindamilne3166]

Thank You my Friend Tara.

[@yogachittammclauchlan6806]

Marvelous Tara❤

[@carolmhanson]

Thank you. I recently found you and I am grateful for your lessons. Just what I needed.

[@basiagajewska4637]

Thank you Tara that is just so beautiful and true what you say I experience this in my life and that exactly how is works, kindness is magic...

[@chilloften]

Thank you Tara, I was recently programmed not to give to false selves. The body knows who.

[@terapiaymindfulnesskosher]

💗💗💗💗

[@jannball4887]

Thank you! Love the concept of greeting others as a friend! I appreciate you so much.

[@adastraperporci8829]

That was beautiful. Thank you Tars

[@adastraperporci8829]

Tara*

[@Sunny_Day1111]

Beautiful teaching,Tara. Many blessings to you ✨

[@KnottyToys]

Thank you ✨💜

[@FrankKlaver]

Thank you Tara, thank you John. I just finished Anam Ćara last night and received your email and watched your talk today. Blessings on your road 🙏

[@jimlitts3254]

The fox study you spoke of at the beginning was very interesting! A detail that you didn't mention or I missed in your talk was that they selected for friendliness by selecting foxes to breed that came to the front of their cage when a caretaker approached as opposed the foxes that cowered in the back corners of their cages. In translation, they selected for friendliness by selecting against fear and in favor of courage noting that courage has heart at it's foundation.

[@108lukas]

Thanx for clarifying, I thought I missed something

[@nehha23]

U r so amazing thank u Tara

[@leannefaulkner-charve6910]

Beautiful 😍

[@kimparfitt1409]

I wonder what shut down friendliness in Denmark?

[@jackwilliamatkins5602]

Superconsciousness won’t add one day to your life

[@Alphacentauri819]

Actually... rethink your cognitive distortions and biases, your narratives... consciousness DOES extend life for many. How? There is the awareness to take care of the vessel (your body) so better sleep, nutrition, no alcohol and so on...DO extend life. Additionally, those who have learned to be present, conscious, moment to moment, have calmed down their sympathetic nervous system and decreased the risk of associated diseases. When a person can be calm, not constantly activated in fight/flight/fawn/freeze, they don't have all the stress hormones dumping and wreaking havoc on the organism. I noticed my prior comment was deleted. If you are threatened by others views, I'd suggest you pursue why. Pursue yourself deeper and what drives you. Secure people can hear other ideas and not become derailed or threatened. They can pause and consider and don't personalize things.