Embodied Presence (Part 1) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.0	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namas day friends, welcome. The Washington Post did a kind of social experiment some years back and it took place in DC metro station where a man was playing Bach music on a violin for 45 minutes.
0:47.0	And during this time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work, and only six people stopped
0:55.8	and listened for a short while, and several children did, but their parents kind of hurried them along.
1:02.0	And no one realized that the violinist
1:06.0	was the renowned Joshua Bill, who's
1:09.3	performed some of the most intricate pieces ever
1:11.9	written while playing on a bile in, it was worth three and a half million dollars.
1:18.0	So it brings up an important question, which is if we don't have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world
1:27.6	playing some of the finest music ever written, how much else are we missing?
1:33.0	If we look honestly at our lives, most moments we're off in thoughts.
1:40.0	We're not directly connected to what's right here and to our senses.
1:45.0	We're not directly feeling the aliveness of the moment available to really savor the beauty, to sense the mystery. Not right here. And as it happens
1:56.6	because of our negativity bias, our thoughts are usually have the whole undercurrent of anxiety. They create a sense of separation.
2:06.2	So the grounds of the path of awakening is this shift from thoughts to living in our senses awake because that's the only
2:17.6	place that love happens. When we're embodied it's really the roots of wisdom, of seeing what's truly here and of all healing.
2:27.6	So this is kind of a warm-up because this week what I'd like to do, and it's actually this week and next week
2:35.1	is share two talks that can guide us back to our bodies, you know back to that full
2:41.0	aliveness and heart and spirit.
2:43.0	So I hope you enjoy the talks.
2:48.0	Namaste and welcome.
2:50.0	About a decade ago, a spiritual teacher was asked to describe our contemporary society
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