When something goes wrong, do you tend to think: "Something's wrong with me"? Use mindfulness to learn how to escape this mentality, through what Tara Brach calls "radical self-acceptance."

 

 

Tara Brach is the founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. She is a practicing clinical psychologist, a lay Buddhist priest, and the author of the forthcoming book "In the Shadow of the Buddha."

 

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Excerpted from "Radical Self-Acceptance"
By Tara Brach
Audio available at Sounds True.