Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 (2017-06-07)

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🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 - There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find liberation, I would not teach about it.” In this two part talk, we will look at the conditioning that blocks happiness and two primary pathways of practice that evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.0	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.1	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:26.0	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.0	This talk is part of a two-part series called Happiness is Possible.
0:38.0	Really addressing our capacity for deep contentment, for what sometimes called Happy for No Reason.
0:46.0	And I'd like to begin with some verses from a Japanese monk,
0:52.0	because I feel it gets captured so beautifully, the spirit of Happy for No Reason.
0:56.0	His name is Gensai.
1:01.0	Trailing my stick, I go down to the garden edge.
1:06.0	Full floods have washed away the planks of the bridge.
1:10.0	Shouldering our sandals, we wade the narrow stream.
1:15.0	I dabble in the flow, admiring how firm the stones are.
1:20.0	The point in life is to know what's enough.
1:24.0	With the happiness held in one inch square heart, you can fill the whole space between heaven and earth.
1:35.0	So we sense this possibility.
1:37.0	There's something intuitive in us that senses this.
1:41.0	And we know the deep conditioning we have to hitch our well-being to things going a certain way.
1:49.0	And most of us are familiar with what I sometimes call the inner complainer.
1:55.0	You know that one.
1:56.0	The inner complainer really starts squawking when we have to wait in line or traffic is really bad.
2:02.0	We can't get the reservations we wanted on a certain airplane.
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