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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Nam Namaste friends. Welcome. Thank you for being here. Well I'll start with a short little

teaching story. This is about a man who had been hired as a new CEO of large corporation, the current CEO stepping down, so he meets

with this new hire privately in his office and he hands them three numbered envelopes and he says to open these if you run into a problem you don't think you can solve.

So things are going pretty smoothly for the first six months but then sales takes a downturn and the new CEO begins

catching a lot of heat. So he goes to the draw and takes out the first envelope and the message

reads, blame your predecessor. So the new CEO calls a

press conference and skillfully lays the blame at the feet of the previous CEO and sales begin to pick up and the the

blame at the feet of the previous CEO and sales begin to pick up and the problem soon behind him.

About a year later, the company is again experiencing a dip of sales and there's serious product malfunctions and so on.

So having learned from his prior experience, he opens the second envelope.

And the message reads, blame a senior executive

than aggressively reorganized.

He does it.

The company quickly rebounds.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company again falls on hard times.

So the CEO goes to the office and closes his door and he opens the third envelope and it says prepare three envelopes.

Okay so blame and anger and resentment and so on they might pump us up they might give us a

feeling of control they might force temporary acquiescence and they don't work in the long term.

Blame comes from our survival brain.

It's a survival reaction that creates divides and it doesn't offer a pathway of true transformation.

And as we know in our current world, so many of us are caught in this trance of judging and blaming and

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