2013-04-17 - Entering the Mystery

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🗓️ 17 April 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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2013-04-17 - Entering the Mystery - John O'Donahue writes, "We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in." This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of "beginners mind" that enables us to encounter this living world with freshness, courage and wonder. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!

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0:00.0	There is a story about Mola Nazardine who is considered to be a Sufi wise man and fool,
0:25.1	and in this story he is invited to teach at a large temple, and the congregation is very
0:30.9	excited, and the first thing he says is, who knows what I am going to teach, and everybody
0:38.2	just kind of sits there and he shrugs his shoulders and he leaves, and so they are pretty confused
0:45.8	and upset, so they invite him again, and again everybody is gathered and he says, who knows
0:51.1	what I am going to teach, and everybody raises their hand, he shrugs his shoulders and exits,
0:57.4	third time they invite him, and he again you know poses the question, who knows what I am going
1:05.3	to teach, and this time half the group raises their hand, and he says, good, then you guys can
1:11.0	teach the other half, and he leaves again, so I share that because it is an interesting question
1:20.8	what we really know about life, you know we go around at one level of knowing, but there's these
1:30.4	huge questions like where did this universe come from, and if it what happened, I mean what
1:38.6	started it off, and if there was no starting point, what is eternity mean really, or what
1:45.7	is love, I mean we use that word love all the time, but if we slow down just a bit and
1:52.0	sense a loving feeling and go okay no really, what is this, what is love, you know, and then
2:00.2	we can wonder about how it is that humans create so much suffering, how is it possible this
2:10.3	blast in Boston, causing the pain of that, it's just we shake our heads, or how is it possible
2:19.5	that the continued torture guantanamo, our nature's violence, we have hundreds of people who have
2:27.7	recently been killed in our rent because of an earthquake, and then we have at the same time
2:33.8	marble through everything, this incredibly beautiful spring right here in DC for those
2:42.0	listening, this is when our red buds and our dog would start doing their thing, it's just
2:47.4	beautiful, so what is the deal with the 10,000 joys and the 10,000 sorrows, what do we really know,
2:54.2	so for me you know I was thinking about this and then of course a couple days ago there was yet
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