Felt good to hear you recount what age is doing to you (and the rest of us)..identify! we are all in this together and it helps me be more comfortable (at least with my diminished energy)...
I am totally on board with that aging-in-reverse essay. I've never heard it before but I joke all the time about this notion. Once we get to a certain age we should be able to reverse & press pause. It's hard when everything around you is aging, illness, loss & death. I've already been working through chronic health challenges for more than half my life & now caregiving for my elderly parents & these topics & prolonging life & wellness whatever bit we can get consume me. It's always so challenging, my two polar opposite spiritual paths, one encouraging being and the other built on doing, achieving & pushing to one's potential. Trying to find the balance of what feels true to me.
Beautiful words about your long loved friend Lisa. I'm a couple days away from 2 years to the week where my mother went into palliative care and I was bedside with her until she passed a week later. My thoughts on dying changed, less fearful yes but more the presence of that process of dying gave clarity with the loving of living. So much loss and separation since have led me on a different thought path about meeting the life I have now well. Both of these talks have been so helpful Tara, I'm so grateful. By the way, you have an ageless beauty of course and your neck and décolletage are amazing! Anyway, thank you.
Namaste 🙏 Tara Brach🤍 strongly identified with this meditation & heartfelt talk, at 72, 42 years sober… experiencing grief and loss of close friends particularly after COVID isolation is the most difficult passage of our end run here on 🌍
wonderful teaching here. I'm coaching someone who has benefited from your RAIN framework. Life inhale, death exhale...the reflection here on being curious about our thoughtstream is beautiful. Thanks!
I too felt frustrated with not being able to remember a certain insight or subject of conversation. I now feel this forgetting is an integral part of the remembering process, and how that isn’t a thing of the mind but a felt sense of knowing that is not transmitted in the usual way of thought. The mind feels less cluttered and more open to the senses. Thank you! Your talks are always real and inspiring. ❤
I was looking for a modern day infusion of buddhism into daily lives and so glad I stumbled on to your channel. Your warmth, wisdom and beautiful eloquence is a rare gem💕 wishing you a lot of success and peace
Can we know who wrote that great essay near end about living backwards...starting in a nursing home....to high school...ending with 9 months floating in the womb? That was great :) Thank you
I am that which dissolves; Light and Darkness, I am become Death, destroyer of worlds! And, my experience continues somehow, like a movie, then I realized I was Alive! Living is mysterious; it is dying that is certain.
