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Fear and Love (retreat talk)

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Fear and Love (2021-11-01) - Only when we face our fears can we discover the freedom to love without holding back. This talk looks at how unprocessed fear contracts our body, heart and mind, and on a societal level is the cause of othering and violence. We then explore how arousing mindfulness, compassion and prayer can enlarge our basic sense of Being. As we deepen attention to the nature of awareness, we discover a refuge that is timeless…a refuge that is our true home (given at the IMCW 2021 Fall Retreat).

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0:00.0

Greetings.

0:04.8

We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

0:09.9

To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.

0:13.5

So Namaste, greetings.

0:29.9

I'm loving being with you, feeling the shifting, this kind of growing presence and warmth

0:39.6

in the field as we're practicing together.

0:43.4

I love looking, scrolling and just getting familiar with faces, old friends, new friends.

0:52.4

I read recently that if you place two living heart cells from different people in a petri dish,

1:01.6

they'll tune in and in time they'll find and maintain a third common beat.

1:08.4

They'll come into coherence.

1:10.6

I feel like that's here we are and we're in this virtual Buddha nature lab coming into

1:17.5

coherence together.

1:20.1

Mark Nipo, who's a friend and poet, writes that there is in the very nature of life some

1:28.3

essential joining force.

1:32.2

This inborn ability to find and in life in a common beat is the miracle of love.

1:39.0

For if two cells can find the common pulse beneath everything, how much more can full

1:46.0

hearts feel when all excuses fall away?

1:52.8

How much more can full hearts feel when all excuses fall away?

2:00.1

That's good.

2:02.4

So I was reflecting on what I wanted to talk about over the last few weeks, really, honing

2:10.0

in and asking myself what feels most alive.

2:13.8

It's really this, this possibility of what can unfold when we're free to love without

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