Humility with Tara Brach

so good evening i'd like to start tonight's talk with a very brief story about a prisoner who had spent many years in solitary confinement where he spoke to no one and his food was given to him through a little opening in the wall and one day an ant crawled into his cell and the man contemplated with it with real fascination as this little ant crawled around his room and he held it in his palm and at one point he gave it a grain or two of uh food and kept it under a tin cup at night and and this went on for many many days that he just observed and engaged with and got involved with this ant and one day it really struck him that had taken him 10 long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of ant to the loveliness of ant so i was reflecting on this and found it interesting to to wonder about what really enabled that that connection that valuing of ant to arise and certainly equality of presence but also something else that's very particular that's related to presence and that's it's a word that we don't often filter our experience with and that is humility that contrary to the the habit of self-centeredness and putting ourselves above others or creature other creatures he didn't put himself above aunt and because he wasn't separate from or above he was able to be in that kind of intimacy that appreciates what's there these serbs have a really wise saying and it says be humble for you are made of earth be noble for you come from the stars be humble you're made of earth we're made of this stuff and be noble we come from the stars so humility you know the word hummus humility and humble come from it can be understood as close to the ground the kind of feeling of the essential common ground or equality with all expressions of life and that we all have the same conditioning we all have the same basic aliveness and and spiritual humility is not in no way a kind of debasement and it's not a kind of false modesty uh maya angelou writes this she says it's important that we learn humility she says modesty is a learned effect affectation it's no good humility is great because humility says there was someone before me i'm following in someone's footsteps they'll be others after us we belong to each other we're inter-influencing each other all the time humility gets that we're part of something larger so it's not a debasement there's an honoring of our particular talents and there's a recognition of our limitations and our the places that we get that we're really conditioned and reactive but those are like ripples or waves on the ocean we know the depth of what we really are so in the buddhist tradition humility arises out of what might be described as wise view are a deep wisdom understanding one of this interdependence that will that were essentially from the same essence we're from the stars and we're absolutely everything we experience everything we know everything that we perceive is related to everything else in the world you cannot take yourself apart from things and that our self-centeredness when we get caught in self-centeredness and the opposite of humility is self-importance self the kind of pridefulness it obscures who we are it's a way of inflating that's temporarily a kind of a false refuge but it covers over what we most want to experience the guided meditation we did today based on this homecoming we can't be at home if we're living in some afflated self-important place nor can we be at home if we're living in a deflated self-demeaning place so i think of humility the mark of humility is the lack of of self-importance i think of humility as without that kind of self-fixation that that when we're humble we're truly able to see the goodness everywhere within ourselves and others it's not blocked so i want to talk about this quality tonight i've been reflecting on it some and i shared with jonathan my husband that i was going to because i haven't given a talk just on humility so i shared with him that i was going to do that and he said well maybe your talk on humility will make you really famous so that was his sign off you know it was we'll see so so let's take a moment first do a little check-in to see where where how that word is a filter for your experience just to check in for a moment and as you check in just as we've been doing since the possibility of having that intention just to come home right now just to take a full breath knowing that humility and any reflection on humility who must belong into the earth is going to arise out of presence i invite you to just scan a little of your life and since when you have experienced a taste of this kind of humility spiritual humility that that kind of humbleness okay made of the earth belonging to what's around maybe it's in nature sensing your place in the universe being part of not removed and important are removed and bad just part of maybe for you you felt some sense of humility in helping a loved one you weren't in the role of help or you just plain we're helping just part of things maybe you found it in the face of incredible beauty a sense of wonder that's humbling scanning different settings of your life different activities people just notice where you might sense that quality of humility and when you're sensing it what your experience of yourself is just examine a little how am i perceiving myself you might notice that when your heart is most sincere and there's that quality of innocence or sincerity that with that comes from humility when you're really in touch with what matters to you your aspiration and i invite you to continue to filter for where this is in your life both where you feel humility and where you sense that you cut off as we continue to reflect together so moving through the world with humility is valued by every religion that i've kind of looked into the common denominator if you start reading what different scriptures and religions have to say about humility the language isn't always this but the common denominator is that there's some surrendering of a kind of small egoic identity importance pride whatever surrendering that to realize the sacred and the taoist put it this way they say all streams flow to the river or i'm sorry all streams flow to the ocean because it's lower than they are humility gives ocean its power that's lao tzu humility gives ocean its power and this means the idea is that a low place it means without any false constructions or pretensions of ego that we're really resting in the essence of what we are and we're not trying to put ourselves above or power over or control or manipulate the talmud just as water abandons a high place and goes to a low place so do words of torah that spiritual wisdom only survive in one whose mind is humble we cannot experience wisdom unless our mind is humble and judy and judaism in many many scriptures just describe that humility is essential for spiritual progress one story i read the cantor of a synagogue's impressed the rabbi effort at first is uh in a moment of spiritual passion falls onto his knees and says i'm nobody i'm nobody okay that's the beginning of the story then the cantor of the synagogue is impressed by the rabbi he says this looks good this is inspiring so he joins the rabbi at his knees i'm nobody i'm nobody and then the shamas that's the custodian watching from the corner couldn't restrain himself either he joins the other two on his knees calling out i'm nobody i'm nobody at which point the rabbi nudges the cantor with his elbow points at the custodian says look who thinks he's nobody so uh in christianity it's also all over that it's essential to feel this kind of humility to find god that it's easier for camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man get into heaven and there's more one of my formative influences monty python this is from wisdom this is from the life of brian okay so there's a dialogue between characters as they're listening to jesus give the sermon on the mount and and one says shh i just heard blessed are the greek the greek well apparently he's going to inherit the earth did anyone catch his name then a woman says no they're saying the meek are inheriting oh isn't that nice i'm glad they're getting something they've all had a hell of a time so the meek the gentle will inherit the earth and again this is in it in contrast to being identified in a hierarchical way as self-important it's it's it's the opposite of arrogant you know being superior it's opposite of being in a place of harshness or judgment towards others i love the way henry newen writes about this he talks about humility as found in being a child of god and he describes being a child of god as a second innocence that we're a child of god we're born and we have our child experience but we return to that innocence and that sincerity as we become more conscious and re-choose okay we choose we're purposeful about waking up from the egoic conditioning and becoming a child of god again so again this is the becoming a child surrendering this egoic identity that covers over our purity and our innocence becoming humble okay islam the very term islam can be interpreted as meaning surrender to god surrendering the egoic coverings humility it's right in the center of islamic faith sikhism humility represents again the end of egotism the capacity for god consciousness the sikhs consider a begging bowl before god that's what humility is and then the shaman don juan if you read some of the carlos costronada books how many of you read some of carlos castinada okay not alone in that one that was one of my first entries into spiritual life acosta nyada describes as the greatest enemy what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow man our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone can you relate to that no nobody here okay not us just other people relate to it i'm going to read it again because i think it's good what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone he writes as long as you feel you're the most important thing in the world you cannot really appreciate the world around you you are like a horse with blinders all you see is yourself apart from everything else so this is potent medicine okay the it's very much not in our conscious awareness that we move around with self-importance and that it blocks it blocks seeing goodness and it blocks feeling connection in vivekananda hinduism the mark of humility is shedding any inferiority or superiority i feel like that's a clean way of saying it realizing each human being is the universal and that's where namaste comes in this i see the divine in you and in me and in all beings it comes from humility so in evolutionary terms and i come back because i feel like that seems to embrace all of the different mystical perspectives um it's quite natural as we evolve that we feel a sense of separateness and that out of fear and grasping the separateness has us get inflate ourselves and deflate ourselves and it's part of our evolutionary journey we have this frontal cortex with its capacity for mindfulness to see that happening and to have this longing as maya angelou put it this longing to be at home to rest at home as part of this earth as coming from the stars so buddhism talks about humility as rather than having self-importance that we really get beyond this sense of being a solid centralized self that we let go of self fixation hinduism more talks about the oneness with with all beings they're the same thing and we all have different temperaments what which kind of way we might want to think about it or talk about it this is nisargadatta maharaja he says wisdom tells me i'm nothing love tells me i'm everything between the two my life flows let me ask you to reflect again for a moment okay let's check in i'd like to invite you to bring to mind someone you know who you feel has the quality of humility very kind of very transparent you can really sense it a mature mature kind of spiritual humility the christians might call it the child of god you might sense it as where the person's ego doesn't obscure who they are you can sense it that they don't put themselves above or below what's it like to be with this person imagine that that quality is filling you right now just that energy that quality that consciousness not above not below belonging seeing the goodness what's it like inside when there's a real letting go of that notion that something's wrong with me or something's better about me this is letting go of it all what's it like in your body your heart and mind so again as we reflect just sensing this is an innate capacity or quality of our being and yet it's often blocked and it's blocked very naturally because if we look at evolution we know that for many phases of our evolving consciousness from for all of our historical evolving consciousness we were living in a sense of separateness and living in uh in societies where hierarchies were and are the defining feature if you think of apes and dogs alpha matters it's not like you get a humble dog you get a dog that's maybe beta but not humble in a spiritual way you know what i mean so it's the same thing humans it's our evolutionary history to feel separate and one teacher ajam budadasa describes most of our narrative as eyeing and mining that most of the thoughts 99.999 percent are thoughts that have to do with the protagonist moi and what is doing and what wants and needs and the goodness of one the badness of one you know and everybody else is kind of like a fixture on the stage but you know that's how if we want to be honest we go around with that narrative of eyeing and mine and and real basic to eyeing and mine is comparing i mean the mind the the mind is designed to make comparisons and when we're in an ego state the comparisons are who looks better who looks worse who's got more power who's you know more intelligent we have all these different ways we compare so the lens of humility gets really interesting when we start sensing we actually start picking up more quickly how we're making ourselves important or we're making ourselves special or else we're making ourselves like in some way deflated so i just want to take a few moments to go over deflation and inflation since we all do it and we swim usually i don't know if you've already identified where you are but usually we go you know inflated and then we get you know inflated not thinking really deep down that we're terrific but temporarily thinking we're better than other people you know and then we deflate so deflation it comes from a strand of truth okay and the truth in deflation is we belong to this earth we're vulnerable we're subject to conditioning we have fears we have anger we have hurts we get reactive depending on our historical experience we can cause harm every one of us has caused harm okay so deflation picks up on the truth that oh this being has caused harm or this being isn't so good at such and such but the delusion of it is owning the experience in other words we belong to the earth we have all the conditioning every one of us has the conditioning to grasp the conditioning to resist and yet if we own it we're going to go around feeling ashamed shame is pervasive to me it's the kind of fundamental challenge we have which is we own the conditioning we think it's my fault that i'm addicted to food or my fault that i lash out at so and so it's the earth conditioning living through us so the deflated ego basically says something is wrong with me and it debases itself i'm not deserving guilt shame and it's another form of ego and often there's a confusion between humility and a kind of that kind of false modesty that's actually debasing there's um there's a i was reading about um in the history of buddhism this is a nominally buddhist historian says that the first generation of buddhist rather serious people but their descendants lightened up to an amazing degree in the fourth century indian buddhist scholar bharajata identified six degrees of amusement these range from a faint smile to adi hasta which is when you laugh so hard your your jiggly bits wobble they developed a surprisingly modern style of comedy featuring the excessively tough self-deprecating style that many people think was created by new york standups or monty python and so here i'm going to give you an example this is um check out the brilliant my life sucks contest the two famous buddhist scholars had an 800 a.d i did not make this up by the way okay so this is you know this is false humility my life sucks chow chow says i am nothing but a donkey one yang says a donkey you're so lucky i am merely a donkey's buttocks chow chow says actually i dreamed that i could one day be a donkey's butt ex at this moment i'm what comes out of a donkey's buttocks when yang says you're privileged i'd give anything to be what comes out of a donkey's buttocks for i am but a worm living in what comes out of a donkey's buttocks and do you know why i'm there chow chow why when yang because i wanted to go somewhere special for the holidays and with that line when yang won the competition no lie so competition in modesty so the thing with deflation is we cling to it that identity becomes familiar and it actually feels more secure to hold on to deflation than to entertain the possibility that we're okay because it's dangerous it's dangerous to let go of inferiority because then we might get slammed sideways you know we might start loosening our boundaries and then have an unpleasant truth come be encountering it so we hold on tight to deflation but we also move to inflation and that too inflation just like deflation has a strand of truth remember we come from the stars we're made of awareness there's this radiance and luminosity that shines through these lives and we sense that awareness and luminosity and then what happens eyeing and mine the ego owns it and so there's some part of us that thinks we're actually very special and mysterious and great and out of this world different and kind of mysteriously awesome you know and basically specials because we're owning that awareness does that make sense so we own the vulnerable stuff the earthy stuff all the different emotional weather systems and feel deflated and we own the specialness of this luminosity that's here and feel like we're different and special and they're both delusion they're both an ego owning something that is part of the universe but when we're in that in that sense of special or important we feel superior to other animals and you can sense what it's done to planet earth humans feeling special it's meant being cruel to other species and it's meant not recognizing because we're not sensing our belonging to the earth that we need to take care of this larger body of ours it takes expression as arrogance as entitlement as feeling that we're right and we cling we cling to that too because it protects us from what's underneath it which is it's covering over an emptiness and a feeling of badness so the specialness and pride that we cling on to because we don't want to feel bad is is the kind of central element in all fundamentalism okay there's good and there's bad we're on the right side you're on the wrong side but even more than that and this is what's through all of us it's pervasive in stereotyping and we don't realize how many moments we just look at someone and we immediately have a category that's either better than us or worse than us and it happens all the time this is conditioning from tens of thousands of years but we do it right away without noticing it and we're better let's say because somebody we get oh different socioeconomic are oh less educated oh this different race and immediately that's one of the big and most toxic ones different religion sexual orientation oh i'm tolerant but there's some sense of you know a little bit strange or something if somebody's sexual orientation is not mainstream our gender orientation i have increasing number of friends right now in my life that are gay lesbian but also are transgendered and it's opened up my world a lot this rainbow this sense of all the degrees of what's possible and i watch it and it's painful to watch how many jokes and deriding kind of views there are for people for their gender orientation it's painful read your story am i gorgeous my child asks drawing the word out like pulled taffy yes i say you are the pink and teal dress is probably made of highly flammable material some chemists approximation of toll and satin pudgy fingers decorated with pink polish trace the sequins on the bodice i love this a giant pair of bubblegum pink wings flap slowly little feast dance and sparkly red slippers i'm just like a real princess yes i say you are thick blonde hair blue eyes rosy cheeks flawless skin this child is the american epitome of beauty this child my son he's four years old and prefers to wear dresses maybe it is a phase maybe not even as i wonder how i produce such an angelic looking creature i wish you put some pants and go back to playing with toy tractors not because it matters to me it doesn't but because i'm already hearing in my head the name calling he will face in childhood many adults already seem a bit disturbed by dress by the dresses strangers utter awkward apologies when they realize she's not female this culture wants little boys to dream only of baseball trucks and trains this culture has no room for little boys who want to be gorgeous he picks up a parasol a neighbor gave him and opens it jauntily over his shoulder am i beautiful he asks i sweep him into my arms and plant a kiss on his cheek always so both as a culture and as individuals this conditioning to have hierarchies to see right and wrong and good and bad to be superior to others are inferior to others is very deep in our psyche and if we can begin to see it seeing is freeing if we can take some time if all of us leave and we have just a little bit more of that lens of mindfulness of how am i in some way putting another down creating separation are up creating separation just that mindfulness begins to loosen the patterning so how to awaken how do we begin to notice how do we begin to free ourselves and as you know it's it's the truth that liberates right in other words we start letting go of the superior inferior as we start touching into the aliveness the earthiness the realness of what we are and as we start touching into that um that awareness that light that's living through all of us as we start seeing that it's almost like those structures or ideas of better and worse start dissolving yet sometimes we catch ourselves in the thick and so i want to just give you a few examples of how awareness can help us wake up when we get caught in rather than humility either in deflation or inflation and that's going to be the last part of tonight just to to preface and say the more that you practice waking up out of thoughts just a simple practice you know 10 20 minutes a day of noticing when the mind's drifted into thoughts and waking up and having some presence-centered awareness that's not conceptual it's when we wake up and experience the quiet or the space between the thoughts that we can start seeing reality that we can start recognizing who we are and recognizing each other the thoughts separate one guy had said one guy was sitting at the bar and he said to a bartender you know i know i'm nothing but i'm all i can think about and this is c.s lewis you know he says the opposite of pride and pride is humility so this is what he says humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less so this basic training we're doing a meditation to wake up out of conceptual mind actually starts loosening and dissolving this whole trance of a self who's better or worse so that's the ground level is to keep practicing waking up out of thoughts and then when we're deflated this is when we get caught in the trance of unworthiness one woman i was working with after a breakup and she had been in her life as many people had had a string of rejections and so it plunged her deep into the sense of i'm undesirable you know i'm too sensitive i'm too insecure as soon as i want to be with somebody my wanting makes them go away it was that kind of a syndrome and so we began to bring the two wings of awareness which is to notice what's happening in her body okay and also to bring bring a love to it we began to explore that but we started with what she was believing just so that could be framed and seen and the believe the egoic belief that was there was as i mentioned this kind of i'm basically flawed and nobody will ever want me so that was the that was the deflated belief the core belief and i asked what i often ask and you'll find this there's some wonderful work on working with with beliefs and with thoughts that's out there now but i asked the question is this true i mean is it true that you're flawed byron katie is one of the teachers i most admire by the way on working with these thoughts and beliefs is it true is it true that you're flawed is it true that you'll never ever be close to anyone and she's and she basically said look i know that i can't know it's true but it feels true and that's good enough you know that's what often is the case it's like we can say all right i don't know it's true but my body feels it but just by acknowledging we don't know it's true a little bit of space starts opening up so we can do a little more work so then i ask the next question i often ask is what's it like to believe that when you're believing you're flawed when you're believing you'll never really be close to anybody that anybody that really knew you would reject you what's it like and this is where very embodied we go underneath the story and the thoughts to the earthly vulnerability that's there and when she got into that she could feel in her body the the ache and the emptiness and and i asked her how long have you been experiencing this and she felt like she couldn't remember a time she hadn't somewhere sensed that in her feeling entirely alone and um that's when i often describe this as kind of the ouch moment that's when the compassion came that she was able to begin to sense that quality of compassion this is when the egoic self starts loosening and dissolving if you want to get out of inferior or superior when you could start really contacting vulnerability and feeling kindness that starts fading away so i asked her the final question who would you be if you didn't believe this if you didn't believe you were fundamentally flawed you can ask yourself that if you feel like you're in a space of feeling unworthy i mean who would you be if you really did not believe that belief for her and the reason i'm telling you this story is because her description was interesting she said i don't know but there'd be a huge amount of energy and a lot of possibility and i'd be very innocent because i just wouldn't know everything would be filled with possibility and hope and i got that sense that when she could see who she'd be outside of that old belief it was like that child of god that she was just kind of like more open to the world and so it was and this is she didn't take on a new identity like oh now everybody's going to love me and accept me it was more just this quality of openness of not bad and not not better than and not worse than that was so interesting and so as she went on over the months she described the spontaneity that she had never had not deflated just not inflated just more spontaneous she could see other people's vulnerability whereas before it was like those blinders of i'm so bad she couldn't see others everybody else was insecure too and she could see more of the goodness so this is the possibility remember when we're not in that humility place of here we are all together we're up or down and if we're down there's a way to bring compassion to that there's a way to wake up out of the beliefs that really lets us be like that child of god like okay so what's possible each encounter becomes a kind of adventure because we don't know what's going to happen but love is possible okay so that's example number one example number two is for inflation and by the way it's easier for the ego to admit deflation than inflation inflation covers over this whole of self-doubt and when it's acknowledged it intensifies shame so inflation is really embarrassing which is why i didn't really go into it until like chapter 11 and true refuge and i didn't even start talking about inflation so much until the last five or six years because i feel like i'm you know like i've seen in myself the perfect example of swinging like you know wrote radical acceptance because i was deep in the swamp of uh trance of unworthiness but i could equally describe being deep in the trance of special person and special persons who i wrote about in in true refuge and so special person gets caught in a feeling superior like she knows more or knows better and also kind of entitlement she special person i'll say she but me because here i am um it's easier to say she put her out there and it happened 20 years ago you know that kind of thing special person i came from a family of four i was the oldest so i was the boss i was entitled to get my siblings to do whatever they wanted i was impatient and offended and and um uptight when they didn't and people after them didn't cooperate now there was this assumption that i'm supposed to have my way so you know i've i've kind of gotten a lot more gracious and smooth and and not so caught in that persona except when i am so um so example i think this was about a year or so ago not that long ago i remember being i i do a daily walk by the potomac we live right near uh the park and and that's when i get really honest with myself i'm walking and i can replay things that happen and just really get oh okay well that was really coming from that that inflation space and i started sensing with jonathan my husband how my computer had been flaking out and and how i was expecting jonathan to drop everything to take care of my computer i had so much to do my i was so important that i was expecting him to kind of organize himself around me and got really upset with that because it was so not new it was so familiar that once again i had kind of created a distance out of the sense of some entitlement or self-importance and so when i get upset with it there's a swing and i'm as much in the shame as i am and in the importance i'm ashamed of the importance but the importance is still got some tenacity and i did the same thing i've done in the past which is at first i tried to meditate myself out of self-importance you know i tried to in some way you know throw out all the different meditative tools i could do to not feel like a special person or important person or like i had a right to such and such and what i found was that um it just left me feeling defeated it was like this has been going on for decades i can't get rid of this and a real sense of kind of despair like am i gonna you know here i am teaching this stuff about waking up from the ego and realizing who we are and am i going to live huge swaths of time in some way with self-importance or am i going to then swing and feel bad about myself for having self-importance you know how long is this going to be a structure that obscures truth so there was despairing feeling and then i heard a voice and i've heard this voice before that it's very simple it's just kind of a um just stop it kind of sweetheart just stop just stop struggling and there's a kind of wisdom there that's saying the ego cannot transform the ego the ego cannot vanquish special person okay just stop and so in that you know in that just stop you know there's a part of me that went yeah but if i just stop then it'll come back again you know that kind of thing and then again just stop i just that kind of just stop just let it be and then in those moments of just stop just let it be i kind of spontaneously went like this and i'm for those that can't see i have my hands kind of cupped in my head bowed and it wasn't like i decided to do that but there was in some way a kind of physical posture of surrender it's like let special person and shameful person and everything that's here just let it be held in the largeness of love and the largeness of truth let it be held by something larger because this self can't do anything about it so there was a kind of physical surrendering and a relaxing not getting rid of just knowing that it belongs like it belongs to the earth it just belongs the earth it's not my special person and in the moments of that gesture there was this natural relaxing open unnatural i'm coming back to my angelo's language this this sense of being at home exactly where i was there was a sense of space and there wasn't anybody there there was just aliveness happening and lucidity i share this because it doesn't go away as far as i know these kind of narratives and beliefs and feelings keep reappearing but what changes is our relationship to them and rather than getting into the trance of self-importance or the trance of unworthiness there's increasing top moments that we're just noticing it and just resting in a larger truth until gradually it becomes clear that that space and that tenderness and that awakeness is more the truth of who we are it's more the truth of who we are than any ego narrative that's freedom that's when we rest in this humility that is free to love and see goodness and celebrate this is rumi be ground be crumbled so wildflowers will come up where you are you've been stony for too many years try something different surrender so tonight we have been really talking about i started with talking about the prisoner and the ant how we can begin to surrender let go of those narratives that inflate us or deflate us and you'll notice as you use this as a filter that there are certain experiences that very very quickly dissolve that self-importance in a moment that you feel a sense of awe or wonder at beauty it's just not there that beauty is you and it's around you and you're just at home and in a moment where you really see someone and see that who's looking out as that same light and that same tenderness as looking through your eyes there's no special person there's no importance there's no deflation and in a moment that you see someone else and their vulnerability you know it's not your fear it's just the fear and it's in this body too there's no self-importance so the invitation for all of us is just to know that we have this longing to be at home and that at home means that we're not better than or worse than and that there is an invitation that in any moment we can relax back we can sense the narrative oh and go thank you very much but relax back into this goodness that's here we do come from the stars [Music] okay so let's just take a moment let's close our eyes the most direct entry the most direct way home is just to sense the possibility of relaxing with what's right here first perhaps on purpose letting go a little in the body softening the shoulders softening the hands perhaps slight smile and a nice full breath just let your attention come right into the moment the center of now just feeling the aliveness of this body heat flow places of pressure you're from the earth these are the elements playing out sensing in the background the consciousness sits here that which is aware that silence that's so wakeful sensing how that wakeful silence fills your heart that your heart space this empty radiant heart and have the same heart space the same continuous space of tenderness and awakeness flows through every being we all belong to this heart space wisdom tells me i am nothing love tells me i am everything between the two my life flows namaste and thank you [Music] you

Channel: Tara Brach

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Keywords: meditation, Tara Brach, dharmarain108108108108, humility, buddhism, common ground, awakening, spirituality, conditioning, culture, self-importance, grace, wise attention, feeling unworthy

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Length: 55min 15sec (3315 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 12 2021