What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz
Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Israeli governments’ devastating military action and long occupation in Palestine, and is dedicated to finding a path to peace. This conversation was part of an event for the Tovana mediation community in Israel. We talk about the inner process behind my circulation of a short piece responding to the violence in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel; how we can work with strong reactive emotions and trauma; what helps us to speak and act in a way that is truly serves the greater good, and what can give us hope for eventual peace. This offering includes the recording of a question/response period and a sharing of prayers.
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[@Bellesawyer]

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief. This is so profound. Thank you… and to get back to realness you have to drop into presence… to realize it’s not the person or the group that’s the enemy…its the unprocessed fear…that gets us caught in the greed and the hatred and delusion… so we have to go within …if we don’t …we’re part of the cycle of violence. Brilliant ❤

[@na9049]

Wow. I just prayed for a way to show me out of my anger over Gaza. Thank you for this video🙏

[@anituzman]

A beautiful, tender, inspiring conversation, so rooted in humility, love and vision of who we are and can be.

[@sandraklatt7610]

So real - so raw - so vulnerable…Keep speaking your truth. I felt every word. Peace

[@wendyharris9346]

thank you tara. & community of listeners. may we do our work so we can walk the path of peace, & show up in the world in a meaningful way.

[@SideB1984]

I painted a beautiful shimmery butterfly in many shades of blue surrounded by orange and pink shimmery skies, and also a golden heart surrounded by a turquoise labyrinth while listening to this session. 🙏📿

[@user-hq3dq7xh3g]

What a teacher you are, Tara. A Master. What a lovely exchange from both you and Assaf. Thank you, thank you. I am speechless.

[@igraunboelselv]

I had to shed tears. I feel this sadness. Leonard Cohen is weeping. But we have to sing his Anthem. It feels like all the world is purging and also has been ripped apart by trauma but maybe it can open up. I want to hug the whole world and caress its cheeks. I try to do it mentally❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@yildizstopford7176]

Thank you to Tara and Assaef for an insightful and comforting conversation. Amid all this suffering and horrific atrocities, I really needed to hear common sense, compassion, love and care to keep me taking action on demanding an end to the killings and hatred. We all deserve to live without fear and hatred

[@jenniferwolf545]

Thank You both so much . What a powerful conversation. 🙏🪷💜💜

[@patricialawson-df4wo]

Tara you peeled off another layer into the light. Thank you Assaf Katz for your contribution.

[@groundedunorthodoxy8000]

Tara thank you for talking about this.

[@elodieleaf]

❤I am Jewish. Thankyou so much for your written piece and for this video. It is of paramount importance. Namaste Tara🙏🏼

[@esmegoldblatt3450]

Thank you for affirming that we have to uphold prayers for peace. That there is a way to peace for all the world and it begins in each one's heart. Bless you and may we all remain directed towards Divine Neutrality and Oneness. 💜

[@user-xd5um2lk5o]

So helpful and beautiful. Thankyou 🕊️

[@alexismcguiness4931]

Tara, you are a loving symbol to all who envision a transformative future where community, love and peace abide. Blessings and Love to you and all that you do! ❤☮️

[@Carosami]

This was so beautiful. The discussion around contempt was super helpful and powerful. ❤

[@francinesilver6147]

thank you Tara for all your wisdom

[@kate-miawhite5633]

Thank you 🙏 ❤

[@patriciacroisier3231]

I'm suddenly empowered by listening to you, Tara that we are blessed by a woman speaking words of how to effect the process of being peace to the world. There just are not enough woman feeling their power, speaking for enormous change for all of us. Thank you for being brave and and teaching us how.

[@louisechiat8590]

Beautiful Tara, you are a rare gem. Thank you for your light 🌟

[@pomanah]

Amazing conversation! Thank you!

[@Live_Better_Now]

Thank you so much for this.

[@deedorothypapineau6920]

I support your wishes for peace. Thank you.

[@deborahwhitman6003]

Thank you Tara. Your fears are my fears, your challenges are my challenges, your prayers are my prayers. Your words express my thoughts perfectly. I have received so much comfort from your teachings and I am grateful. Namaste sister.

[@merlinmaya7]

Thank you for talking about this, many of us share your feelings. 🙏🏼🕊️✨

[@user-rn8md2jq4d]

Just what I needed to hear, so powerful, thank you. Let there be peace on earth.

[@AlohaNathieYoga]

Mahalo, thank you❤ the more trauma, the harder it is to find clarity and process and resolve. Naming that is good. Steps are so important. Transformation takes steps and lovingkindness and patience. Recognizing the thoughts, and feelings associated with them is essential. The Awareness is growing.

[@manideli2662]

Tara, you are a light in my night.

[@robertldavisjr]

Thank you 🙏 🧡🌸

[@boogaria554]

I cried almost thru out this. Deeply.

[@rawan144al]

This sounds like Tara is helping this guy and the Israeli conscience clear their collective guilt about the horrific massacres and vengeance happening in their names as we speak. The real spiritual challenge I believe would be approaching the weak side and working with the enormous amount of felt trauma and suffering over there

[@Alphacentauri819]

Where do you get that narrative? Tara being opposed to violence of any kind, any side…doesn’t sound like a “helping this guy and that Israeli conscience clear their collective guilt..” That guy is a Buddhist and isn’t at all supportive of destruction of Gaza. Happening in “their names”…whose names? Tara’s, her guest? Please clarify. Also, please question your own biases, your own raw emotions, cognitive distortions, core wounds, that may have warped your taking in of this information…and informed” your story “meaning making” the mind creates, especially with large emotional content. If we aren’t careful, it creates “realities” that we believe as fact, and react to, without a proper pause (or many), deep introspection, metacognition, and 360 analysis, while checking our limbic system. Then, and only then, can you have any hope of a clear lens…in which to hear this talk (and almost anything else) clearly.

[@mariannehenderson5473]

what I wish for in our world is to find a new way to tolerate pain and trauma, without loosing heart. And wishing for a new way to seek resolve, away from revenge. I am at present in a difficult unresolved situation with people close to me. Listening to you talking together, in your heart based manner, calmed my nervous system down. Somehow recognising the truth of what you both have been sharing and in the way you entered this ground. May what's happening in Gaza be a mirror for all of us and bring transformation by each and all of us, by making those new steps for and by ourselves, and may that ripple on through the bigger whole.

[@juliamay-byrd2245]

Thank you thank you thank you.🙏 ❤

[@mistyclaus3583]

Powerful.

[@elainekearney8335]

Thanks

[@susansacco7583]

Thank you so much. Namaste 🙏

[@user-sn1sf2lk2l]

I can’t thank you enough! I had a terrible nightmare two nights ago I was hiding from the soldiers you know watching too much TikTok 💔🍉anyway my spiritual mom sent this via email the morning after the nightmare isn’t that how CREATOR works!!! Spot on! So sad for all

[@valentinacuadrado1358]

May ecerybody be free feom suffering.

[@sandragorlick1285]

My prayer is for the hostages to be returned home.

[@osamamanassera]

And my hope is that the evil occupiers to get out of others land.

[@Carosami]

Let us be compassionate to all those who are hurting, while we also support Palestinian liberation.

[@patricialawson-df4wo]

Thanks!

[@MariaEsperanzaSanchez_dr1965]

I think this goes beyond just Israelis or Palestinians. It's painful for all of us who come from a colonised background. It's difficult not to see ourselves as Palestinians. Since the beginning, the Israeli state was founded on violence against Palestinians, on blood, on killing, maiming, dispossessing, taking their land, dehumanising them. It necessitated ethnic cleansing, killing them, and eliminating them. Well, that's not dissimilar to what happened in my own part of the world where indigenous people had to be decimated and eliminated so that people considered more worthy had the land. I feel an ancient pain in my chest. The pain of witnessing what my ancestors went through hundreds of years ago, and there is nothing we can do. Israelis had the power and the backing then and they have it now, and there is nothing we can do, just to deal with this ancient pain.

[@user-yo5eo9sn8x]

Just a heads up that Ku is a fictional language and culture created for a movie by an American director. Thank you, Tara, for taking a public stand.

[@jenniferhoffman1973]

Oh son of Spirit You were created nobel Why does thou abase Thyself Come back to which you were created!

[@lindamilne3166]

Linda Mine

[@RedwoodEden]

Tara, I usually m in the same page with you and benefit from your wisdom, but Van Jones? Ugh …