Absolute Cooperation with the Inevitable

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🗓️ 20 July 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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2013-07-17 - Absolute Cooperation with the Inevitable - This talk addresses common misunderstandings about acceptance (allowing, "letting be") and explores the challenges and blessings of opening to the raw emotions that we habitually avoid. 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	If you were here last week, the talk was on skeleton woman, the myth of skeleton woman
0:23.8	and the theme being embracing this living dying world and tonight we're going to be continuing
0:33.1	that exploration in a way and I wanted to harken back to my very first retreat because I remember
0:41.6	probably day two or three. The teacher of that retreat said that the boundary to what you can
0:50.8	accept is the boundary to your freedom. The boundary to what you can accept is the boundary to your
1:00.4	freedom and I could feel in the room and I could feel in myself some intuitive, yeah, that's truth,
1:09.7	you know, just kind of getting it that if we're battling reality in any way, if we're battling
1:16.4	aging or sickness or dying or other people's behaviors or our inner weather or other people's
1:25.4	you know, not cooperating with us. If we're at war with how it is, it's exhausting and it's futile
1:34.4	basically. So we get that. We get the spiritual significance of this notion of really
1:47.7	accepting the life that's right here and I'm going to use as I speak interchangeably the words
1:54.3	accepting or forgiving or allowing or even a surrendering presence to what is right here.
2:01.2	So Ajahn Chop puts it this way. He says, if you let go a little, you get a little peace.
2:07.9	If you let go a lot, you find a lot of peace. If you let go absolutely, you find absolute peace and
2:17.4	tranquility. Okay. So again, something resonates. We kind of know if we let go and stop the fight,
2:27.8	it's there's some very beautiful peace that is possible. And we can also sense in daily life
2:34.9	how incredibly challenging that is. And again, when things don't go our way, we contract and react.
2:42.3	We don't open and let go. Again, Ajahn Chop, very good, this Thai teacher, he passed away probably
2:51.0	20 years ago now, but he always says that he says, we see ourselves clinging and we know it,
2:58.5	but we still can't let go. This is 50 to 70% of the practice. Isn't that good that we see it?
3:08.3	This is part of the practice. We just see it. Okay. I'm hooked in some way. I'm clinging or I'm
3:13.4	resisting same thing. Okay, we see it. And so 50 to 70% of the practice is seeing and knowing it,
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