The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

One of the inquiries that I find most useful in personal healing and spiritual awakening

is very, very simple.

It's that question in the moment of what is between me and really feeling happy, really

feeling peaceful, right, in this moment?

And when we check in, when we sense, well, what is that?

And I do this often at workshops at Krupalu or Omega, and we kind of share a bit about

that some day longs.

What we find when we begin to pay attention, like what's really between me and really

being at peace or free right now, is there some background of a belief that something's

wrong with me or something's wrong with you or something's wrong with life?

There's some limiting belief or idea in the mind that's separating us.

Often it has a quality of judgment and often the judgment is aimed at ourselves.

I can say for myself that when I'm noticing I'm in a bad or unhappy mood, and I do even

the slightest bit of scraping beneath the surface, on some level I feel like I'm falling short.

They feel some sense of personal failure.

And in Buddhism and most spiritual pasts I've encountered, the source of something is

described in a fairly elegant, simple way that we have this delusion about who we are

and we don't see the truth, that we do not recognize the truth of who we are.

We forget this awareness and love that really is shining through every being, every form.

We forget.

One of my favorite stories that I like to share comes from when my son was in a Waldorf

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