Embodied Presence (Part 2) - Planting our Roots in the Universe - Working with Pain (2020-02-05)

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Embodied Presence (Part 2) - Planting our Roots in the Universe - Working with Pain (2020-02-05) - 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.
0:02.8	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.0	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:24.3	Namaste and welcome.
0:27.4	Here's a story about a Buddhist master who has asked how come he meditated and his
0:33.6	response was to see the tiny purple flowers by the side of the road as I walk to town
0:41.7	each day.
0:44.5	And that to me is as beautiful a reason as any.
0:49.3	Our last talk or the last live talk was on embodied presence, how this waking up to the
0:56.6	life of our body coming home to the aliveness of our senses really is the gateway to everything
1:04.4	we long for.
1:05.4	If we can really wake up in our bodies, we can wake up to our heart loving and we can
1:11.8	wake up to our full wisdom.
1:14.9	And so what I'd like to do is continue at this will be part two.
1:19.5	And what we'll do is we'll look at both the challenges of waking up in our bodies
1:25.8	and also the gifts.
1:29.5	And as we explored a couple of weeks ago, when Buddhist master put it really well, when
1:35.4	he was asked to describe the world, his response was lost in thought.
1:42.1	And there we go.
1:43.4	When we look back on today, it's pretty easy to sense how much we're in that trance,
1:50.7	that kind of virtual reality of thoughts.
1:55.0	And often it's easy to see in retrospect how little we were actually awake in our bodies
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