The Tilted Buddha

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A friend of mine and I decided we wanted to buy a statue, a Buddha statue for our DC community. But the night that I put it up on the pedestal,. people looked at it and they were all, their heads were all kind of tilted to one side. It turns out the casting had been tilted. We kind of named ourselves the Sangha, the leaning Buddhas, just to sense it. And that became a really valuable reminder in a lot of ways: what we most get down on ourselves for, hate ourselves for, are really conditionings, castings that we really didn't have any control over.

It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that’s not true, and today’s episode dives into strategies to deal with your own self-hatred.

This is part two of a series this week on forgiveness. In our last episode, Jack Kornfield focused on forgiving other people and in today’s episode, Tara Brach talks about forgiving yourself.

Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Her weekly podcast is downloaded 3 million times a month. Tara is also the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington.

In this episode we talk about:

Why Tara says self-hatred “divides us from our ourselves”
The benefits of learning the habit to stop kicking our own asses
Simple meditations to help us with self-forgiveness
Questions that can help us understand what really matters to us, and what we really want
The power of seeing the profundity in mundane experiences
A refresher on a fan favorite meditation technique: RAIN
How to start trusting reality more than we believe the beliefs about ourselves
Forgiveness vs accountability

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