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Radical
Acceptance
Embracing
Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
Tara
Brach, Ph.D.
“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.
ISBN
978-0553801675 * Bantam, 2003 * 333 pages * $23.00
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