The Bridge to Compassion

In this conversation, Sam and Tara Brach discuss the importance of compassion in mindfulness practice. They discuss her personal experience learning and teaching meditation, the tension that underlies any effort to seek enlightenment, and trusting the process of becoming more mindful. Sam and Tara also discuss differing perspectives on how to respond to the problem of racism and close the conversation by questioning whether the guru-disciple relationship is, in principle, broken