Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening Beyond the Separate, Fearful Self - Tara Brach

Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening Beyond the Separate, Fearful Self [2022-07-20]

Most of us unconsciously identify as a separate, threatened, deficient self. This talk shines a light on this conditioning and explores the ways that mindfulness, compassion and self-inquiry reveal the freedom of our true nature.

The talk concludes with a brief reflection, Dissolving into Awareness, that invites a taste of the awareness that is our true home.

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With thanks and love, Tara

[nomennominandum]

Starting at 4:48
Thank you, Tara, you are such a blessing. I too see the divine in you!

[earthpearl]

I try to offer understanding to my "trance of unworthiness, " it's already suffered a lot. <3

[milaschon]

I am following you and listening to you since years with some pauses inbetween. Always refreshing, remembering and connecting bit beyond all your incredible loving presence, I love your humour and the childish laughter from time to time while telling us some anidotes and cartoons ❤❤❤

[nanetteshirley]

Trying to seek that poem that ends with " your probably a dog" can anyone help?

[lauralocutora]

Hi Tara! I´m Laura, from Argentina. I´m just ending your fantastic book ´Radical Acceptance´. Every word of this book gives me peace, conciousness and compasion to myself and others. Thanks much for this piece of peace.

[louisesumrell]

I've let fear take me for a ride for the last several months...fear of societal ills. Politics. Angry at the people who, "just don't get it!"
I forgot to accept that what is, is.
Thank you Tara.
You always help me get back to what's real...important.
Namaste my friend.💖🫂🙏

[bit_paul]

1:00 yes, I see a lot of confusing identity with our career in my industry; I'm not "the director" at the animation studio that employs me, I direct there.

[lindamilne]

❤️Waves 🌊Waves 🌊 Waves 🌊
“Gentle Presence of the Heart”
Thank You 💕 Tara!
I’m going back for more Waves 🌊.

[judithwallace]

This meditation was very helpful. Thank you.

[slowwco]

Tara Brach quote highlights from this video: ”It's powerful how we get conditioned to believe we're this particular separate human with certain limiting characteristics and then live our decades according to that internalized self-view.”

“The undercurrent of this trance is feeling that something's missing in our lives, that something's wrong with how we're living.”

“We live in this life in these big swaths of virtual reality and stories—a lot about a self who's separate, who's often deficient, who's threatened, who's really not enough.”

“We intuit at moments a larger sense of being beyond that trance of a small self.”

“A very key inquiry on the spiritual path in most spiritual traditions is that question, ‘Who am I really?’”

“How do we wake up from that limiting identity of being separate or being deficient, and live from our true nature?”

“What are the limiting beliefs about yourself?”

“From that witnessing place, this is trance and this is a portal for awakening.”

“Register from that witnessing place, ‘Okay, so this is a taste of who I am beyond trance.’”

“No matter what your level of experience, you can trust that you'll take what most serves your awakening awareness.”

“The key delusions in all humans: this dream or trance that we're a separate self, that something's missing, that we're not whole—and that the spiritual freedom we long for is down the road or in the future out there.”

“What we seek is right here. It's what we are.”

“Even in the moments when our neurosis is full bloom—when we're completely activated and sensing that we're deficient, we're failing, we're messing up—we're not separated from the loving awareness that's our true nature.”

“Suffering is when we're exclusively identified with the waves and forget the ocean.”

“‘Selfing’ is living in the stories and feelings of a separate self. Everything is perceived with this lens of this is happening to me, it's owned by me, I am at the center of things, I am the doer, I am the controller.”

“When the sense/idea of the self softens—when it's no longer our exclusive identity, when it's no longer occupying the center of experience—what remains is this vastness, this mysterious openness and wakefulness and love that's really the essence of all.”

“It's part of our evolution to be able to see that conditioning and awaken beyond that exclusive identity with a separate self.”

“We were all subjected to conditioning that created, to different degrees, self and trance—that made us feel like we were disconnected, we're separate, apart from the rest of the living world, and to different degrees not okay.”

“The key is that we always start right where we are.”

“Mindfulness and compassion widen the sense of being and allow you to enlarge beyond the trance of a separate self.”

“Awareness is a given, we're just not aware of being aware.”

“The ‘backward step’ is shifting from focusing on the object—which includes focusing on our self-object—to sensing the awareness itself.”

“I'm aware of this sensation … Find the ‘I’ who's aware of the sensation, that ‘I’ that's witnessing the sensation.”

“Find the witness that's aware of the self—that which is noticing whatever is being noticed about the self.”

“Sometimes I'll imagine that I have no head—because that's a common place to locate the self—and it's just space that's experiencing what's happening.”

“Your true nature is always already here.”

[aliciacubells]

Thank you for your videos, I really appreciate that you share your wisdom. It makes such a difference in my life ❣️
Gracias 🙏 ♾✨

[desertportal]

Best 15 seconds that ever had me. Default Mode Network blew a fuse. How do I know that? Uh Huh

[talofek]

You are a beautiful soul dear Tara . A blessing to us all . Angels light and love upon you <<{}>>😇💙💫🙏

[rosemoon]

dear tara .. you go to fast in the meditations, there is no time between the words to really do what you are saying and keep up

[vanianits]

so grateful for your generous offerings and compassion sweet lady💕

[selfhelpchampion]

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.
Marshall B. Rosenberg.

[Coastal_kiwi]

Loved that you gave an example from your own life where you applied R.A.I.N and met the waves with presence.
Enjoyed this talk very much - thank-you 🥰

[chrisandres]

Do I have to die to eternally become the transcendental Object being of awareness, or, am I in some sort of undead state of the eternal now? Freaky!!! I sense that awakening is a lot spookier than it gets described. Headless and dead, but aware of one’s headlessness and deadness! Thank you Tara!

[judithwallace]

I was listening to one of your videos with headphones and fell asleep. I was having a bad dream and your message got through to me in the dream. It calmed my heart and brought me peace and ease. Many thanks.

[itsgoingtobeok-justbreathe]

the guided meditation was wonderful! I would love to listen to/practice along with this every day. is it available as a stand alone meditation? Thank you <3