Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 1 - Tara Brach

Letting Go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 1 - Tara Brach

While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart.

We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go.

The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.

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[yogawithpriyanka]

Thank you for this Tara, I just spent 15 days in india with my parents and am recalling a a wise person once said...everytime you want to see where you are in your spiritual journey - spend some time with your family ... sums it up perfectly 🙏🏽

[veraheyde]

Be empty of worrying
Think of who created thought
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
Widening rings of being.
Rumi
Thank you Tara 💖

[humanbeing]

absolutely beautiful. Perfectly placed in this moment in time. Returning love and gratitude 🐛🦋 ☀️🧊

[marianmarshall]

I always appreciate your input. This particular ‘session’ was stupendous for me. Deeply affirming of my own process, evolved over years, that I had, unconsciously, been judging as inadequate. It was also indescribably revealing regarding how much I was, again entirely unconsciously, holding regarding “what is to come”. (I doubled-over with the release). A sense floated wordlessly from within: that what has transpired today, will be life-changing for me. I have never before had such a sense. Thank you, Tara for the lifetime of work and wisdom you share with us. You make a beautiful difference. Blessings

[captainbobsparrow]

My journal entry last night was realizing that the Universe is telling me I have to let it ALL go & me trying to wrap my head around the truth that all means ALL— even my tightest held beliefs. Then this shows up 💫

[Joyous]

Thank you, dear sister, Tara, for entering my heart and soul and life with this awesome message. I want to keep listening to you and the wonderful lovingkindness and spiritual depth that come through you. Your beauty and wisdom are wonderfully inspiring. Deep blessings to you and to each and all! ❤❤❤

[thesavannalady]

Thank you so much Tara. I cannot overstate how much these two videos have helped me in the past week. I have had them on a loop at times to help my racing, controlling mind. They have been so beneficial and have kept me alive. Thank you. (Ironically, this message is probably a form of control!)

[menubrothers]

Tara Brach you're a treasure. I'm grateful to have access to your talks, meditations and books

[mompeace]

Thank you! Feel as though this talk was written for me. The timing is perfect. Letting go is my work.

[maevemcinerney]

Thank you Tara for your beautiful contribution to the world. I'm so glad I found you recently - you have helped me greatly. Sending love 🙏❤️

[kathryzebra]

🧘‍♀️I can remember learning brahmacharya a civility (yama) as without controlling and without addiction. Letting go (with love) and moderation are helpful ways. The specificities of the ways of Eight-practices (Ashtanga) including yama, polite (niyama), posture (asana), breath (pranayama), holding-tension (pratyahara), attention (dharana), meditation (dhyana) and living-meditation (samadhi) are helpful to transcend. Thank you for the reminder🧘‍♀️

[melwills]

What a beautiful talk and perfectly timed for me to hear.... thank you so much Tara, your name fits the Buddha Tara’s role.. working swiftly and compassionately to help others. Thank you very much 🙏🏻

[melissaludwig]

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom Tara. This talk came at the perfect time to help me interrupt my spiral of over thinking. Namaste.

[jamesryan]

Thank you, Tara. I was fortunate enough to experience the state of being you describe just recently. I never knew that space existed, or how beautiful it is. So much peace, so much beauty in that state of pure awareness. So thankful to have you articulate for me what this space is so I can share it with others.

[zaydakebede]

Thank you for reminding or making us aware that our ego is just trying to keep us safe and alive and that it is a natural thing not an aberration.

[lorriholt]

Thank you so much for this. Namaste…

[quilting]

your talk today really make a dent in my hard head thank you for this important realization tara

[joanmurphy]

Our wee sangha found your most recent talk very helpful. We engaged in lively discussion and look forward to the coming dharma talks on the subject of controlling.

[nicoleramsey]

Thank-you. Thank-you. Thank-you. The melting of ice. A house with no roof. Letting go - letting go - letting go. Thank-you Tara 🌸

[Theowlhawk]

Tara thank you, bless you, beautiful ❤