By Tara Brach — 2017
Tara Brach discusses RAIN, a technique she frequently teaches to her students and also uses in her own life.
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The power wrapped within acceptance “as the answer” is an available shortcut to a life peacefully lived when practiced by anyone, anywhere. All people and all situations that trouble anyone can disappear in the blink of an eye when “accepted as perfect” the way they are.
I couldn’t keep “proving everyone wrong” and still do all the things I wanted to do with my life.
This is not about meeting criteria and ticking boxes, it’s about finally creating the generous, plural and radical art world that many of us want and need.
No wonder we don’t talk about Luke chapter 17:7-10. "Faith the size of a mustard seed" — great. Love it. Tiny seed. Lofty idea. Preachable. Even tweetable.
Kindness, tolerance, and acceptance are kind of like the Three Musketeers of spiritual protection.
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Nepo...shares the most humbling thing he’s learned. “We’re asked to learn how to keep asking for what we need only to practice accepting what we’re given,” he says.