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🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence (2020-09-30) - If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores how, when we’re reacting from anger, clinging or fear, to pause, reconnect to the immediate experience of “just this” and remember the love and awareness that has room for the changing waves of life.
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0:00.0 | Greetings. |
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0:16.5 | Namaste and welcome. |
0:26.6 | It's very nice to be with you and I share to begin with a cartoon that I got recently |
0:35.3 | that I found really easy to relate to and it was of two mice and each of the mice is |
0:42.0 | on its own spinning wheel and one is frantically moving and the other one is just sitting |
0:47.8 | at the bottom of the wheel looking very relaxed and at peace and of course the caption is |
0:53.4 | from that one. |
0:54.4 | I had an epiphany. |
0:57.1 | So what was the epiphany? |
0:59.4 | To me, the epiphany is like this amazingly valuable reminder that we forget regularly that |
1:07.4 | we have in any moment the capacity to pause, to become still, to get off that wheel of |
1:16.1 | obsessive thinking and of racing through the day and of running away from something unpleasant |
1:22.3 | or uncomfortable that in any moment, any moment, we can stop, we can stop, we can breathe, |
1:30.4 | we can let go a little and try to do it right now. |
1:33.2 | It's just any intentional moment of that gift, let it go, let it go and then it's possible |
1:40.7 | to enter the next moment with more presence and balance and clarity and heart. |
1:48.4 | In Buddhist psychology there are what are called the four divina boats and each one is an |
1:55.4 | expression of what it means to be at home in the sacred and the divina boats are loving |
2:02.2 | kindness, compassion, joy and the fourth which makes all the other ones, the previous ones |
2:10.8 | possible, is equanimity. |
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