Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress - Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other and all life. This reflection examines the primary forces that keep us trapped in a trance of separation. We then explore two powerful dimensions of spiritual practice that can undo trance and reveal the sentience and love that is our shared essence.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.0	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namstay. Welcome welcome my friends.
0:34.0	The title for our talk today is
0:38.4	finding true belonging in the midst of stress. And I wanted to start with a story about Maladoma Some,
0:48.6	who's a spiritual teacher, no longer alive author. He was born to the Daghara people of Burkina Faso in Western Africa and he was
1:00.8	kidnapped from his village at the age of four by a Jesuit missionary and placed in a boarding school.
1:08.0	And then when he was 20, he ran away, he returned to his village, and he was required to undergo a month-long
1:16.9	right of passage before he could become a full member of his community. And so he's written about these trials.
1:25.0	I want to describe one of his first breakthroughs
1:29.0	where he was, he was asked to sit and just watch a tree and he is aware of his own head processing, you know, the thoughts, wondering, you know, what's the purpose of this?
1:41.0	What's the correct thing to do, you know, there had to be more to it than staring
1:46.6	at a tree, right?
1:48.7	And then he became angry and he felt like he was being made to go through a public humiliation as he sat in the center of the village watching this tree.
2:00.0	He passed that anger and then he broke open and he began to speak to the tree.
2:06.9	And it became a kind of confessional where he was pouring out his feelings of frustration and you know all that was coming up in him and then
2:18.6	apologized to the tree.
2:22.0	What do you experience next? It was this transformation of the tree into what he called
2:27.2	the green lady, this green spirit form, who felt like love, like his home. And he ran sobbing to the spirit and she held him in her
2:38.9	arms and he was hugging her. And he writes about this.
2:44.0	He says,
2:45.0	human beings are most of the time
2:48.0	unaware of the extent and intimacy
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