Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) (2019-11-03)

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) - The boundary to what we accept is the boundary to our freedom. This talk explores the often unconscious ways we create separation by judging ourselves and others, and the key pathways of meditation practice that release the habit of blame and free our hearts.

(This talk was given on Sunday evening, November 3, at the 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat in Reisterstown, MD.)

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.4	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.6	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:19.4	Namaste and good evening my friends.
0:29.9	One of the great gifts that many of you have been kind of noticing is that as you deepen
0:36.4	attention you do start catching on to the different patterns that go on.
0:41.3	Whether it's worry, our planning, our wanting things different, there's more of a notice
0:49.2	of what's going on and what's keeping us imprisoned in a sense, or stuck, or whatever.
0:56.5	I was thinking this cartoon I wanted to share with you of a dog with a psychiatrist.
1:02.8	There's a lot of dog and psychiatrist cartoons out there now.
1:06.2	I don't know why.
1:07.5	The dog's lying on the couch and the psychiatrist is saying, when did you start seeing the invisible
1:13.8	fence?
1:18.8	So this talk is really about an invisible fence and it's a particular invisible fence of
1:25.6	the pervasiveness of judging.
1:28.5	So we're going to reflect together about judging mind and just noticing what a trans it
1:35.5	puts us into.
1:37.2	As it said, we have 80,000 thoughts a day and about 95% of them we had yesterday and a
1:43.2	lot of them are thoughts that have something to do with how something's missing or wrong
1:50.0	that's going on.
1:52.3	So here we are having all these thoughts and a lot of them are about what's missing
1:56.6	or wrong and most of those thoughts are about what might be missing or wrong in me.
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