Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life - Tara Brach

Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life - Tara Brach (10/09/2015)
How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence.
"Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"
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With thanks and love, Tara

[@hareshjoshi09]

I am going through a major shift in my belief system and my current focus is to trust life, take risks and be completely ok in the unknown. And Tara appeared on my feed at the right time. The Universe is indeed friendly:) Thank you so much Tara.❤

[@NB-tr5up]

Łoo

[@jenniferbellmslmhc8436]

Dr. Tara Brach, you radiate beauty! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and insight with the world! 🌎 🌍 ❤️ ✌️

[@mazzreadstarot]

Kind of off topic but I want to take a second and bow to all the faithful and nameless faceless people who do things for us like making sure Tara's mic is off when she takes a drink of water. I believe there have been thousands of buddhas among us that we will never know because in seeking no recognition, they received none. May I learn to be a faithful background helper to all. If no one knows my name, face, or good deeds, the good deeds will be all. I adore the confluence of great thinkers that are reaching out to me and mine through Tara. There are so many. But I have a soft spot for the sound guy (or gal).

[@elizabethwatkins8289]

IHi upsets by is this stuck

[@eltonmartin9557]

Kryon

[@annasmith3645]

It’s so hard to know what to even say to you…. But every time I listen to one of your talks… I can feel the presence in my heart space warm up & glow… and I have much better days… and my eyes look at the world in exactly the way I want them to perceive it… thank you for this… I still have such a long ways to go, but I hope to share & spread some/any/ALL of this love, trust & presence with my lil corner of the Universe & having your guidance is enabling me to do so… I think! Hehe I hope!!! Namaste 🙏

[@rainedavis4173]

So grateful to find another beautiful and loving message from you today dear Tara. Though this posting is 5 years old it resonates so much today as loving kindness is limitless and always possible. Thank you many blessings

[@kalebasnake6502]

Listening to you from Ethiopia💚💛❤️ Your message rings such truth and power it travels all over the world. There isn’t a day that passes without me listening to you. You are my blessing! Love you Tara Brach🖤

[@jkjqu6805]

do not read the comments - no good will come from it, stay up here in the beauty of Tara's words and respect to you for your inner workings, the more we individually heal the more we heal the collective. Blessings

[@ryanadonnelly9169]

I must say that I enjoy reading the comments after the video. It's lovely to see the community of people sharing gratitude and wisdom around these teachings. For me, a big part of healing individually is seeing the others on the same path and recognizing that we are not alone. So I would say, it is whatever works for you, but some, including myself, certainly find good from reading the comments. Namaste.

[@saffronhammer7714]

I enjoy many of the comments and find them healing. To each their own. Namaste

[@sharonulrich8825]

I love the responses to her talks. I will continue to read the comments.

[@deethenorda4188]

Thanks

[@loridunstan1129]

The story you shared about the woman at the airport was one of the most beautiful and uplifting stories I've ever heard. I felt my heart expand exponentially 💗

[@Lukulele1989]

Never thought I would find myself listening to this sort of thing. Thanks Tara for helping me reconnect with my spirituality.

[@luizag123]

The suffering of others is so tremendous compared to my safe life that I feel like I cant handle it, I feel like everything is terrible and even though there are loving people I feel like we are few and made to be preoccupied with random things instead of helping others (meaningless work, life problems, poverty - a VERY common occurence in my country)

[@TheCeciledo]

Such a powerful talk. Thankyou from the bottom of my heart. I feel love and the desire to act upon it. Thankyou Tara.

[@siobhanorourke2570]

I trust in goodness. What I fear is that good people can let you down, leave you or hurt you. Trusting in goodness is not the same as trust others or oneself to have the capacity to trust in connection.

[@backupsinger8277]

Thank you for this important comment. There's so much more discernment involved in the issue of trust where people are involved... and I don't think the topic is covered reasonably in this somewhat psychobabbled lecture. I hope Tara (not her assistant) has the courtesy to step down from the Buddha's lap for a moment to give you a truly considered response. Good luck.

[@bhmjackson2948]

Thank you for y'all teaching I love hear your voice all the time love what have say I learn alot from u u are a wonderful person I a feear of loving other n fear of alot of thing but have taught a lot ty

[@Nomad_Paws]

Big gratitude for sharing all this knowledge with us Tara. Much love and light to all here. We are all together on this.

[@larahamilton2273]

Hi dear Tara, thank you for the reminder of our intrinsic goodness. I found this talk particularly timely and powerfully positive and calming during some difficult life events. Thank you, thank you! Much love, Lara

[@eltonmartin9557]

Kryon. Video on utube

[@davevillaflor3267]

Thank you Tara ☺️♥️

[@bronsonmcdonald5473]

Thank you Tara 💗 You are opening me up to see things in a new perspective with your videos, helping me to be aware of not only what I can change but how to change. For the better of course, lol. I love your stories too, and the little gems like this one " I am cooperating with the inevitable" ( from a different one of your videos). Thank you.

[@carolpridgeon9387]

I love you Tara!!!🙏

[@stephanierumenapf5404]

Thank you thank you thank you. Your talk made me cry and happy. I work in jail vor juvenils.... thank you so very much

[@lynnfishmanrn.8116]

Beautiful words of wisdom Tara. Thank you.

[@susannej5733]

Thank you, Tara 🙏 I hope to come to one of your talks this Summer!

[@Jenet123able]

You are a beautiful soul.

[@Miljasuonvieri]

Tara thanks so much for everything you help me to chooce love, trust and Joy over running away to sueside. Thanks for doing what you do.

[@maryannlantigua4068]

Thanks for this entire hour dedicated to reminding ourselves of our goodness. Namaste

[@robertemerson6090]

What a great love coach! That airport story was so beautiful.x

[@ginahoag6592]

thank you. Such a timely message.

[@foxdenham]

Thank you Tara. Good to have my heart fead back to me. Keep being X

[@amandaclaudatos]

I love what you are sharing, I feel this intrinsic quality of light in many people around me.

[@YouTubeCSH]

I love Einstein, he was so brilliant. Thanks for sharing and giving me positive ideas today. A great way to live! 🧚🏻‍♀️🧚‍♂️🦜👩🏻‍🎓👩‍🏫🌞

[@jimmygarcia7924]

Ty Tara! An amazing message

[@yfoog]

Beautiful.

[@SharonRiver]

I moved into a yoga ashram right after high school in 1972! It was 3HO Kundalini Yoga. How about you Tara?

[@dianaboughner7977]

💖Thank you for this.

[@virginiaabraham5592]

Needed this - thank you ♥️

[@marniebable]

Thank you 🙏❤️

[@teach-learn4078]

This is so beautiful, so insightful. Like at 40:00, meditation as evolutionary strategy, ha ha, nice, thx Tara

[@metaxiong]

thank you

[@BarbaraMerryGeng]

Wonderful ✨🌸👋🏼

[@stevenkok1926]

Rely on the self to give more and more for the sake of null-gravity

[@saffronhammer7714]

One can find and create meaning in our lives even without the belief of God, even if all is merely chance.

[@doccrwow]

I have only love as my heart, but as the son of righteousness we will all benefit when we remove good and evil from our concept container. Only the great one Spirit ( GOD) is real. way way back we partook of the tree having the concepts good and bad and have precipitated confusion and corrupting of the mind ever since. There is only one reality which is all. Conceptual clarity and charm is needed now. Charles

[@kathleenturkington6126]

Large. Text of what Tara is saying is covering her completely onscreen. Can someone advise how to remove this? Thanjs

[@danashannon8234]

Its not there : (

[@inolofatsenglekaba5026]

🌻💙🌞🌚

[@aperson2730]

21:49 That statistic must surely be incorrect!

[@backupsinger8277]

Tara, you say you don't remember how the other women reacted when you disclosed you didnt trust yourself. Don't you think you would have remembered if these women (of this friendly universe) had been there to comfort you, when you were obviously so deeply troubled, instead of leaving you to sob for hours alone? Did that really help you to be ok with the unknown? Sounds like a rationale for a really heartless response from that so-called enlightened, support group. Not friendly and not representative of goodness.

[@eltonmartin9557]

Kryon on utube

[@chilloften]

It's all fine and dandy until...

[@73rlight]

Tara I believe you are a very intelligent and wise person but I have an issue each time you reference "unarmed African Americans" getting "gunned down" in the streets. Are you speaking of the blacks that are killing each other due to gangs, drugs, or whatever criminal act, or are you speaking of the police shooting these men? I believe it's the latter. Are you buying into the media hysteria that the police are going out on to the streets strictly to kill unarmed black men? These men that were shot were not coming from a meditation session. All of them were in the process of committing some sort of crime and a "concerned citizen" likely called the police on them. I hope you use your wisdom to see that the media and politicians are throwing gasoline onto this racial fire further adding to the separation, rottenness and misery of our society. The police do a difficult job and are required to make radical decisions in a matter of seconds, all while being under more mental and physical stress than most people actually know about. I know many police officers and none of them go to work wanting to kill anyone. Now the extremist black community supports the killing of police...and police officers ARE being killed for this reason. Tara please address the issues of separation and how we have forgotten our ONE source. Maybe you can further add to Eckhart Tolle's vision of "awakened doing." I think all of us need to be reminded of this, including the unarmed African Americans. Yes this was a bit of a rant but I think I needed to be said. I stopped your video at the three minute mark to write this.

[@Abidjan321]

+umadbro haha No, sorry your misinformed..

[@73rlight]

+Abidjan321 fair enough....I find I'm misinformed more and more everyday.

[@alignwithsource]

+umadbro haha... in the early stages of mindfulness, the mind will look to anything to latch onto to distract you from YOUR inner work. i.e. "he/she thinks this or that and they should think another way". or" i can't really look at my own beliefs and mind and choices because other people have it all wrong and i have to set them straight/speak up about this!" the choice is to do the deeper inquiry about why you are so irritated with something and why it is so titillating to avoid the real inner work by pointing fingers at another. it's a great opportunity to do your real work... or you can just keep pointing to everyone else around you and pretending you're actually doing the challenging work of your own mind/heart and soul.

[@ClarissaKelly13]

Agree...one of the slippery slopes of healing our nation's many flaws has become the "victimhood" of certain groups. That does nothing to elevate them or help them to heal from within. I played victim to things in my own life long enough to know that blaming outside forces is never the way forward. The media distorts and is ONLY interested in triggering our fight and flight centers, in dividing us, that gets viewers watching mindlessly. Take that rhetoric for what it is, look deeper always. We must not take sides, must not divide. We must empower the disenfranchised from within, show them their strengths, help them to find their own trust and freedom. Each of us must become responsible first to ourselves, then to others as we trust ourselves and can then share our findings. As Freud said (and Eleanor Roosevelt has a similar quote attributed to her) "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility..."

[@trevorc.7572]

Clarissa Kelly You couldn't have worded that more perfectly... thankyou for that and I wholeheartedly agree