Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a BuddhaIn our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach’s transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world. This classic work now features an insightful new introduction, an exclusive bonus chapter, and additional guided meditations. “Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion.”—Thich Nhat Hanh “Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s forty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students. Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she shows us how we can stop being at war with ourselves and begin to live fully every precious moment of our lives. |
Contents
ONE The Trance of Unworthiness | 3 |
ONE Recognizing the Trance of Unworthiness | 20 |
The Path | 22 |
TWO The Practice of Vipassana Mindfulness | 43 |
Resting Under | 46 |
The Spirit | 69 |
FOUR The Power of Yes | 82 |
The Ground | 88 |
Becoming | 190 |
EIGHT Becoming the Holder of Suffering | 209 |
An Applied Meditation | 213 |
NINE The Practice of RAIN | 235 |
TEN Tonglen Awakening the Heart | 261 |
The Gateway | 264 |
ELEVEN Cultivating a Forgiving Heart | 293 |
Practicing Radical Acceptance | 302 |
FIVE Developing an Embodied Presence | 117 |
Awakening to | 122 |
SIX Not Doing When We Feel Driven | 150 |
SEVEN Opening Our Heart in the Face of Fear | 154 |
SEVEN Meeting Fear with an Open | 187 |
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THIRTEEN Realizing Our True Nature | 325 |
THIRTEEN Who Am I? | 343 |
RAIN Partners Practicing with Others | 347 |
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