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Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Radical Acceptance Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Author: Tara Brach
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthin...  more »--from Radical Acceptance

Radical Acceptance

“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 twenty 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 leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.

From the Hardcover edition.
ISBN-13: 9780553380996
ISBN-10: 0553380990
Publication Date: 11/23/2004
Pages: 352
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3.4 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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txreader361 avatar reviewed Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha on + 4 more book reviews
For anyone who has trouble practicing the Buddha's message, this is a practical, easy-to-understand book on how to practice guided meditations and overcome a conflicted life due to a lack of self-acceptance.
reviewed Radical Acceptance : Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha on + 2 more book reviews
This is terrific -- practical, sensible and speaks directly to our heart wisdom in motivating us to just be happy and peaceful with what we are right now, letting go of self-deprecating thought patterns that do very little to enhance our lives. Tara is amazing, truly. Made a difference in my life.


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