{"id":2895,"date":"2013-03-27T06:15:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2013-03-27T06:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:15:44","slug":"tara-brach-speaks-on-deliberate-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mindfulnessmatters\/2013\/03\/tara-brach-speaks-on-deliberate-practice.html","title":{"rendered":"Tara Brach Speaks on Deliberate Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/96\/2013\/03\/tarabrach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2907\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/96\/2013\/03\/tarabrach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>My dharma friend, Tara Brach posted a short video where she speaks of &#8220;deliberate practice.&#8221; By this she means coming to this moment regardless of what is happening. It means not shying away from difficulty if that is what this moment brings. She touches on the formula suffering = pain x resistance, one of the chapters in my 108 Metaphors book and a profound teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Tara Brach: Today&#039;s Wisdom: How It Can Transform Your Practice Excerpt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47BfsZTTD9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tara&#8217;s new book, True Refuge is a wonderful exploration of the value of adversity. <a title=\"True Refuge: The New Book from Tara Brach\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/2013\/01\/true-refuge-the-new-book-from-tara-brach.html\" target=\"_blank\">You can see my review here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This moment may be difficult, yet we can embrace it with awareness. This formula always reminds me of the poem from Rilke:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight,<br \/>\nlet me sing out jubilation and praise to assenting angels,<br \/>\nLet not even one of the clearly-struck hammers of my heart<br \/>\nfail to sound because of a slack, a doubtful,<br \/>\nor an ill-tempered string. Let my joyfully streaming face<br \/>\nmake me more radiant; let my hidden weeping arise<br \/>\nand blossom. How dear you will be to me then, you nights<br \/>\nof anguish. Why didn&#8217;t I kneel more deeply to accept you,<br \/>\ninconsolable sisters, and surrendering, lose myself<br \/>\nin your loosened hair. How we squander our hours of pain.<br \/>\nHow we gaze beyond them into the bitter duration<br \/>\nto see if they have an end. Though they are really<br \/>\nseasons of us, our winter-<br \/>\nenduring foliage, ponds, meadows, our inborn landscape,<br \/>\nwhere birds and reed-dwelling creatures are at home.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a8&#8211;Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Stephen Mitchell)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Here again is the invitation to move towards the difficulty. It is permission not to see these anguishes as diminishing us. Rather, they are our great teachers if we can open to the possibility. We are process and always in the process of becoming. Difficulty is part of these cycles. When we can meet the pain with openness we can relate to it as pain and not as suffering. Suffering arises when we resist against what is present, when we wish things to be other than they are in this moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dharma friend, Tara Brach posted a short video where she speaks of &#8220;deliberate practice.&#8221; By this she means coming to this moment regardless of what is happening. It means not shying away from difficulty if that is what this moment brings. 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