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Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness

by Tara Brach

📖 256 pages 🗓 2021 ISBN 978-1683646204

About This Book

A compact collection of teachings, meditations, and stories centered on a single essential message: our fundamental nature is goodness, not deficiency. Brach uses the metaphor of gold hidden beneath mud to explore how the practices of mindfulness and self-compassion gradually uncover this innate goodness — not as an achievement but as a recognition of what was always already there.

What You'll Learn

The mud is not the enemy — it is the very material through which the gold is discovered. Each moment of genuine self-compassion, however brief, loosens the grip of the trance of unworthiness. Spiritual practice is not about becoming something better but about recognizing the goodness that cannot be damaged, lost, or improved upon.

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