Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom - While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence.

This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart. We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go.

The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.3	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. I'd like
0:28.7	be mmm day. I'm going to be.
0:29.7	Namaste. Welcome, my friends. It's good to be with you. I'd like to begin with a classic story where a
0:38.4	novice wants to enter a monasteries talking to the Abbot and saying well how long will it take me to be enlightened
0:46.4	and the abbot's response is 10 years and then the novice says, what if I try extra hard?
0:55.0	The response is 20 years.
0:58.0	Hey, wait a minute, you first said 10, for you 30. And you know we get it that ego
1:07.2	we get it that ego striving is not going to work, you know, that trying to get somewhere is not that
1:15.4	liberates.
1:17.6	I think of wellfulness and striving and controlling as kind of a clenched fist that we're actively
1:25.9	squeezing and it cuts off life so that the understanding is we can only experience real ease, aliveness, freedom by relaxing open,
1:40.9	by letting go of the clench. And the Buddha taught something really radical, which is that freedom,
1:49.7	love, peace, happiness is always and already here in the moments of non-clinging, of non-resisting.
2:00.4	In other words, in moments of presence, when we're not trying to control life, when we're not trying to make it different.
2:08.0	So of course there's a reason that we don't have that many moments of peace and freedom and that
2:15.2	is it's not easy to let go of controlling. It's not easy to open to life just as it is
2:22.2	because we have this deep conditioning to think that something's missing,
2:28.8	that something's wrong, and then to clinch, you know, to in some way tighten in our body to have our mind
2:38.3	clench into, you know, small-minded thoughts, to clench into judgment into beliefs.
2:45.0	I'd like to share a story about Lester Levinson who was the founder of the Sedona method.
2:53.6	Some of you may have heard of it.
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