Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Part 3

Tara Brach

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Drawn from Tara’s book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Through the framework of this practice, we look at how we can reconnect with the gold of our true nature, navigating life’s challenges with mindfulness and love.

In Part 3, Tara explores:

• How the RAIN practice fosters compassion and connection by dismantling barriers to belonging.
• The three primary blocks to compassion: self-centered attention, creating a “bad other,” and fear of overwhelm.
• How “stealth metta” and the mantra “We are friends” can soften our habitual biases and awaken kindness.
• The transformative power of seeing the “goodness behind the mask” in ourselves and others.
• The practice of Tonglen – breathing in suffering and breathing out care, to transform pain into a source of strength and connection.

Check Radical Compassion for more information on Tara’s latest book, including links to order.

…the alchemy of compassion is unless we’re willing to feel… unless we’re willing to be touched by suffering, it will be a sort of abstract kind of compassion – it won’t be real tenderness – a really awake heart. Radical compassion is when there’s a tenderness and an active caring…

The heart becomes a transformer of sorrows if you know how to breathe in, but also breathe out and really offer out either through prayer or active helping. People who can actively engage their caring actually feel better because they’re not bottled up and paralyzed.

~ Tara

Link to Part 1 Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing
Link to Part 2 Radical Compassion – Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing

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