Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

by Tara Brach

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Clinical psychologist and Buddhist teacher Tara Brach weaves together Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practice to address the pervasive feeling of unworthiness she calls the 'trance of unworthiness.' Through personal stories, guided meditations, and Buddhist teachings, she shows how radical acceptance of our moment-to-moment experience can heal shame and fear. The book offers a path to reconnecting with our innate goodness and compassion.

Published:: 2003
Pages:: 352

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In this collection, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha references 4 other books.

It draws on Man's Search for Meaning, The Power of Now and Emotional Intelligence.

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Brach's teaching that accepting suffering rather than resisting it leads to liberation directly parallels Frankl's discovery in Man's Search for Meaning that meaning can be found in unavoidable suffering through a shift in attitude.

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Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor Frankl

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Brach's practice of present-moment awareness as the foundation of radical acceptance builds on the same contemplative ground Eckhart Tolle explores in The Power of Now, integrating it with clinical psychological insight.

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The Power of Now

by Eckhart Tolle

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Brach draws on Goleman's Emotional Intelligence research to explain how mindful awareness of emotions allows us to respond rather than react, breaking habitual patterns of shame and self-judgement.

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Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

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The Tao Te Ching's wisdom of acceptance and non-striving informs Brach's core teaching that true freedom comes not from fixing ourselves but from embracing what is with compassion.

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The Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

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