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    Radical Acceptance | Summary
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    Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance is a work of intellectual and spiritual beauty. The book is a lesson on history and religion, an autobiography, a set of psychological case studies, and a spiritual guide all in one. Brach does a masterful job looking deeply at one corner of Buddhism, examining it from a multitude of angles in order to get the fullest view, all the while staying away from the common trap of trying to expand focus too much and saying too little about too large a set of subjects.

    In Radical Acceptance, Brach sets out with the aim of explaining what the philosophy is, why it is important, and how the listener can go about practicing it themselves - and she succeeds, taking the listener on a veritable journey over the course of the book's 12 chapters so that even those new to Buddhism will reach the end with enough spiritual travel time logged to feel comfortable moving forward on their own.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummary Station
    Release dateOct 30, 2016
    ISBN9781370963638
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      Summary:

      Radical Acceptance

      Embracing your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

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      Copyright © 2016 by InstantRead

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      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing, 2016

      Smashwords Edition

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Analysis

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      Foreword

      Radical Acceptance opens with a message from Spirit Rock Center’s Jack Cornfield. He welcomes readers to Tara’s book, telling them that before them is an opportunity to renew their hold on their own basic human dignity and the forefront it should have in their life. He calls it living life according to one’s Buddha nature – a practice that Tara Brach in her own journey has learned to do. Here in this book, Jack tells readers, is the story of how.

      Prologue

      Hiking a mountain ridge on a multi-day trip with a friend during college, Tara realized that while her life looked highly functional from the outside, on the inside, she was constantly running away from herself. While her friend spoke of learning to become her own best friend, Tara realized that when it came to her inner existence, she was anything but friendly.

      She had been at odds with herself for years. Tara had gone through life constantly battling just to feel that she was enough. She called the sense that she was forever fighting to fix some fundamental flaw in her nature and correct who she was the trance of unworthiness. She didn’t feel at peace so something, Tara thought, had to be wrong with her.

      When she finally decided to fight not herself but the false message she had been operating under, Tara turned to Buddhism to help her release her old assumptions and open her heart and mind to a newer, fuller, more compassionate way of being. Rather than fleeing from her fears, Tara adopted a practice of radical acceptance and started embracing her experiences, or at least co-existing with what was happening, rather than trying to resist or change what she had no control over.

      In loving herself better, Tara found that she could love others better, too. Radical acceptance applied not just to herself, but to the whole of the world.

      Her prayer is for radical acceptance to eventually embrace the whole universe.

      Chapter One

      Tara’s idea of the trance of unworthiness is reflected in a recurrent dream she used to have, in which she is trying futilely to get somewhere or do something. It’s the feeling so many have in nightmares of being stuck in invisible cement when they try to run; they should be able to move, and yet they are stuck.

      The trance of unworthiness is like that feeling of lost cause and effect from a dream. Feeling unworthy can cause people to feel aloof, alone, inconsequential, and powerless, among other types of suffering. People then try to ease their suffering in maladaptive ways, only bringing about more of the same.

      Feeling unworthy puts people constantly on guard. Already feeling undeserving, people who fear proving that unworthiness exhaust themselves trying to find and fix fault. Life becomes all about what is or could be wrong, instead of enjoying or even noticing what is indeed right. When Tara introduces her students to the concept of the trance of unworthiness, she often sees students out in the crowd nodding along, or even crying. Many of them hadn’t ever realized that they weren’t alone in the pain and the doubt. When Tara finishes teaching, many students stay behind to talk with her,

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