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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namst day friends. Welcome and thank you for being here. The talk for today is on beliefs, on how so many

of our core beliefs arise from fear and the way they turn us against ourselves and the way they

separate us from others. And I chose it from the archives before this Saturday's assassination attempt on Donald

Trump and as happens the the inner work explored in this talk it's deeply relevant to how we hold and

relate to our world. So when I first heard about this violence on Saturday, you know, I realized that I couldn't even

imagine the ripples, but what was clear was that it was going to increase fear and mistrust and

deepen the beliefs about bad others, which of course leads to more violence.

It really wasn't until this morning when I felt a kind of wash of grief.

Real sorrow for the way, as a society and around the globe really we're

spiraling into these deepening divides with the beliefs about others that lead to more hatred and violence and just more incapacity to take care of each

other in our earth. So the sadness was feeling us moving further and further from what so many of us long

for, which is a society where we're including each other with all our differences. We're able to communicate

and out of caring, seek for the common good, true democracy. So whether we're talking about creating a compassionate democratic society,

are talking about healing and freedom in our individual lives, we have to bring awareness to the beliefs

and stories that are shaping our experience.

So if you take a moment and try to get inside the mind of someone who'd

want to kill a political figure or someone who'd be using violence against others to gain control, political power, what does that person have to believe?

Well, they have to believe that the other is a danger or a threat to what they want.

And they have to believe that the other is less than human, that they're in some way bad, that their life isn't so valuable,

so then they can go ahead and get rid of them and get the desired change.

The point is that in order for us to violate another or to feel it's okay to violate others,

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