Publisher Description
“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.
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“amazing…this book brings me great relief from my constant grasping towards being good, seeing clearly that this grasping to be good was a cover for all the other graspings, each layer of feeling covered over with more craving or resistance and self-judging thoughts about not being good enough now i know it’a all good. or rather, that in acceptance of all that arises in each moment we find freedom, in embracing even the grasping, going fully into the longing and pain behind these desires and discomfort we can actually meet those unmet needs in our on wholeness that arises through complete presence and acceptance. a book that is very in the world, true to real life, giving a practical map for how Buddhism can be practiced in the everyday. also in the spirit of nonviolent communication–the vipassana-centered meditations really help with the process of self-connection and self-empathy upon which NVC is based. so thankful for this work. many concepts and ideas that were only theoretical or didn’t seem to fit to my life are just clicking together in so many ways with this book and her case studies and own personal sharing.”
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Vanessa (5 out of 5 stars)
