"Facing the Truths that Keep us from Love”: A Conversation between Tara and Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
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- "Facing the Truths that Keep us from Love”: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Rev Angel Kyodo Williams
Our happiness and capacity to love fully arise as we face and embrace all domains of our existence. In this conversation we look at the often unexamined societal conditioning that, when unseen, perpetuates caste systems that harm ourselves and all involved. Our inquiry: For the sake of freedom, how do we deepen our attention to see the forces that cut us off from wholeness, from belonging, from living from an awake, compassionate heart?
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Nice talk! I enjoy Rev. Angel's videos.
Hi Tara, I am in awe in how much grace, kindness, patience, care, and compassion you exhibited in your demeanor, and communication in tonight's webcast. A very difficult conversation for both ethnicities. You are doing so much good work to help heal our world! Blessings.
A very thoughtful discussion. May humanity one day live without racism. Acknowledging how deeply it permeates society brings a intense sadness. Millions of people currently live in a denied oppression. May we all move beyond this internalized conditioning.
Tara thank you so much for sharing this wonderful and inspiring woman. Now I have to follow both of you now. Can't to hear
Thank you Tara & thank you Reverent Angel… much to ponder, to meditate on…
wowowow - SO many gems here - revelatory, paradigm-shifting.. just, wow. Thank you Reverend Angel!
I just discovered this amazing powerful conversation that I got so much out of, and plan to share with many others. Thank you Reverend Angel Kyodo Williams and Tara Brach!
Thank you Rev Angel for your insight, compassion and gentle but strong power 🙏
Thank you, Tara, for your inspiring videos & for shining your light on the world.
Phenomenal presentation! Thank you!
Thank you Tara and Rev Angel. I really loved the discussion on our social constructs. I came into this life as a white, gay, HIV+ man body, and as of yesterday told i have cancer and will have a kidney taken. Thank you so much for putting things into perspective. Much Metta to you all, all following this path, and doing the individual work, to add to the betterment of all beings. Namaste _/'\_
Thank you Tara, I much needed this loving kindness meditation. Much blessings to you and all beings 🙏🙏🙏 And after the meditation, I listened to the conversation with Rev. Angel. It was most powerful, heartbreaking and much needed to be heard. May it help us to awaken from this suffering that the human ego has created.
Rev Angel,can't wait to hear more of you
Oh my God, I love this conversation! It's opened my mind and heart. I will follow this information 👌
Dee Dee
What an important voice to hear. As a white male, I greatly appreciate learning from Reverend Angel. I agree most human beings want to be free! So many good reminders here that I want to continue to feel into and bring awareness into how I (we) perpetuate these systems. It is far too easy to stay asleep. Thank you to both Tara and Rev Angel!
Two beautiful Amazing women of the way ❤️🙏😊
Thanks to both of you💙 much love from Barcelona
Wow!!! “We can take anything and make it part of our incarceration.”
Absolutely incredible. Much gratitude to both of you.
"The self is not interested in undoing the self." Very true. I did some of that undoing of self in my teens and 20's mostly in the search of "truth". It caused so much havoc that I avoided it, at least on deep levels for my rest my 20's and my 30's. What I found was is that as uncomfortable and even painful it is to peel layers and uproot things and dig in to self is, it's 10xs (at least) worse to not do so.
We need people to have the mental health to be able to look at suffering and need guides. They need to understand that it is good in the long run to occasionally be uncomfortable. They need people to lovingly say lets heal and become more fully human TOGETHER. Also marginalized people need to unpeel and undo their own self and be willing to listen too. We need communication and find how to be human together.
thank you for this
With love in my heart, I extend so much gratitude to you,Tara and Reverend Angel for sharing this. Rev. Angel-wow, powerful example! Imagining a white mother with her children at market buying flowers as a black mother's children are torn from her arms -& that white mother is unmoved. She is filled with a stunning callousness.The saddest madness is that her silence taught her children racism. "The Burning Times!", says the mind. When colonial white men in europe and america brought their families to the public square to watch the "witch" get burned alive at the stake. She was usually their neighbor. Children watched their parents call out insults to the woman or beat her while everyone laughed before they lit the fire. Racist slavin white folks, & domineering white men who crushed anyone pushing boundaries. A parallel history not discussed. The Goddess, our Blessed Mother in Her many forms holds us all in perfect Love and Trust! Blessed Be!
Brava! This talk is so valuable.
Wow. What Rev Angel is speaking about beginning at around 25 minutes into this is So profound This inquiry is something that's Been so important for me since being a child. I've been trying to figure this out ... from a very young age I remember crying myself to sleep at night thinking about human suffering... it becomes so complex growing up experiencing abuse, trauma.. friends and loved ones who experienced the same... some, senseless violence and injustice based only on skin color... some of my loved ones lost their lives ... and I see now how everything .. was set up in a way that hurt them to the point of death :'(
Unpacking and becoming aware of how and why people hurt each other.. and even realizing my own part in this. Hurting others .. even when it was not at all my intention...
It's got so much to do with our own fear and internal suffering.
This is such a hard battle :( waking up to realize how much worse things were / are than I ever knew.. and realizing the only way I can help in a positive way right now is to Heal and work on myself... knowing ... for right now I'm not in a place where I can help or make an impact on a large scale.. when all that I want is for fear and hurting to stop... for everyone. I think it's all I've ever wanted.
But it's so complex .. the way things have been for so long... it can feel almost defeating to think that the most I can do at this time is work on healing myself. So that I can trust and feel empowered enough, I hope... one day to do more.
I spent over a decade pursuing a career towards creating positive change.. for human beings.... only to have everything in life torn down to where I had no clue who I even was. Still trying to wrap my head around this.... and I don't plan to give up the pursuit of helping others any way I can in this life.. but now being in a place I've realized how much healing and changing I have to do just to trust my own self. It feels like such a set back.... The guilt is very heavy right now feeling like I've been knocked into a place of fear... and feeling powerless to do more :(
I don't think most people given the opportunity to see the suffering of animals first hand, would choose to continue eating meat. Humanity is so unbalanced. The point I took the most from this talk is how we close ourselves from love by not recognizing the suffering in others . We lose off to our own Humanity when we refuse to see the suffering of other people. Because that requires us to numb out
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How is this threat to belonging a part of the question of vaccination or not? ie. if someone refuses to be vaccinated will they be rejected. And how do we act with compassion when the fear of a deadly illness is the thing that prevents us from connecting with others?
i find myself surprised that you both are baffled that people could be cut off from their own humanity and compassion. I was raised from birth to disregard and belittle any little flowering of my intuitition, instinct or feelings, esp. those that didn't fit in with proscribed ideas. I could do that for myself-- disown my own knowing about a sexual violation I experienced, distance myself and write off any discomfort of having my boundaries violated and reprimanded myself for being "silly" or "too sensitive" as my caregivers, teachers and society had done for me for decades. So if I could so easily become disconnected from how I had been dehumanized, of course I could easily dismiss and ignore any inkling that might tell me what was happening in society with slavery was inhumane and wrong. We are very impressionable and easily conditioned by societal values. I fancy myself an independent thinker, yet just this year, I got a vaccine that wound up further disabling me for 6 months (and counting). I did it, b/c i forgot to check in with what I thought and *know* about my physical health and how putting foreign substances (including all medications) tends to affect me and my auto-immune health challenges. I forgot to think anything other than I didn't want to be seen as one of those "backward, ignorant, Trump-loving selfish" people who refuted science, despite the fact that I am none of those things. It felt risky and inviting ostracization to consider not getting vaccinated, so I didn't consider it. Do not underestimate the power and breadth of societal conditioning on our innermost psyches and ability to do the right and moral thing.
Thanks for sharing this. Hope you're feeling better .
It's astounding the amount of woke nonsense Tara subscribes to.
Nearly all of Tara’s talks and books have resonated deeply with me and have helped me tremendously. I probably am alive today because Tara’s teachings helped guide me through some very dark times. But I just don’t believe this narrative that white people are all engaged in this subjugation of people of color. From my perspective, people off all races end up trapped within oppressive social and economic systems in our culture. I don’t think being born white is equivalent to original sin as it seems some do. It just seems like some people are very attached to their own identity as a victim. I’m not sure what utility there is in picking at old wounds. I don’t think white people need to repent for being born white.
I don't see this as a call to repent for being white, but rather to understand how dominant culture oppresses nonwhites. It's okay to see and acknowledge our privilege without having to feel guilty about it if we haven't done anything wrong, but I think it does call for a responsibility to offer a hand up and system reparation as an exchange for that privelege.
@@shellyann1981 I'm curious about how "dominant culture" is presently oppressing nonwhites. Could you explain?
@@trentynbotello1028 There's literally tons of resources, books and research on this subject matter. Its not something that can be easily explained in a youtube comment section. You can easily seek this information out for yourself.
@@pri2x0x could you point me to a solid resource? Thanks🙏🏻
and it's very easy to maintain those beliefs b/c our overculture is constructed to maintain them. Why do you think your perspective is true or valid? You are being kept in the dark on purpose...not encouraged to develop into a fully realized human being. Everything that would challenge it has been painstakingly subjugated. Do a deep dive, genuine curiosity exploration of your whiteness, and then get back to us with an opinion.
Angel still living in the matrix, lets get past identity. 'this country' 'this culture' such a closed loop. also no such thing as white. 😗
but thanks 🙏
Denying reality does not make you free from the matrix, it just means you are hiding from your own discomfort and using spirituality to protect your ego.
@@saltyvdog I dont know of any reality I have been in denial of, I just don't agree with just any reality talking heads/revs/YTers, etc deliver; why? Because humans have agendas. And whose white? Italian americans? How white are greeks? Or the Irish, with their history of slavery and abuse.
Are we calling white, the Slave Ship owners? In that case, do research most of their last names were ethnic, like Lopez, etc. Tell me again why I should believe in politics and consensus rhetoric?
@@j.martin9477 The Irish were never slaves, and yes enslavers were overwhelmingly white (Spanish names does not make someone non white), and we live in a white supremacist society where is white people hold privileges. You are denying actually history and current oppression that causes so much suffering in our world, and you are dismissing the voices of people who experience that oppression. And for what, because you threatened. I’d recommend listening again without the defensiveness, it is not a personal attack.
@@j.martin9477 wow, really appreciate your perspective. It seems this world wants to hold onto limiting belief systems to stay in this thinking realm and identify with blame, guilt and shame. Thank you for your honesty here. As far as what things look or seem like, "there is more beyond"... 🙏