Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 (2019-10-23)

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 - Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to our own body, heart and spirit, and to all beings. Together the talks offer a natural and powerful progression of lovingkindness or metta reflections, that when practiced regularly can open us to the peace, joy and freedom of trusting our mutual belonging.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.7	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:13.8	Namaste and welcome. This class is the third in a series on deepening belonging.
0:33.4	And in the first class, we explored deepening belonging to our inner life and waking up our
0:40.8	sense of care and connectedness to dear ones. And in the second class, we explored deepening
0:48.4	belonging when with others in our life, there's some conflict to find our way back to connectedness.
0:55.2	And this class, we will be widening the circles to explore how do we feel our belonging
1:01.7	with those we don't know so well or don't know at all. How do we really discover the invisible
1:07.2	threads of connection that really unite all of us everywhere. And if you haven't listened to the
1:16.1	last few, that's fine. You might want to listen to them. Each one stands on its own. But the form
1:22.8	is really in the traditional loving kindness practice, which is, as Rolka says, I live my life
1:30.6	in widening circles that reach out across the world. I may not have completed the last one,
1:37.9	but I give myself to it. So it's like widening the circles and really seeing how much of this world
1:44.8	we can include in our hearts. So Mother Teresa writes, and I've brought this in each week, that if we
1:52.2	have no peace, it's because we've forgotten our belonging to each other. If we have no peace,
2:00.8	it's because we've forgotten our belonging to each other. And the word forgotten is important,
2:06.8	because what it says is the belonging's here. It's just that we get hurt in this life,
2:12.1	we've got hurt in the path, or whatever, and the ways that we got hurt cut us off from being able
2:18.0	to perceive it. And our pathway is to rediscover it. And really that's the heart of every spiritual
2:26.9	tradition to rediscover our belonging, our sense of oneness and connection. So a really good starting
2:38.3	point for each one of us is to recognize, well, how today did I habitually and maybe unconsciously
2:46.8	block that understanding and feeling? How do I move to the world and not feel it? What's going on?
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