Letting Go of Controlling – Part 2: The Path of Freedom

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

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.
0:07.1	To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. dot com. Nam day. Welcome my friends. This is part two of the series on letting go and I'd like to begin with a personal sharing that after recording part one and then midway in the midst of composing this talk, I got an eight-week old puppy and you know as many of you know a bundle of pee and
0:59.6	you know so my computer has kind of been set up right near the puppy play area,
1:07.0	and of course I'm having to race out every half hour to make sure she hasn't pee inside. My approach to having to working
1:17.7	basically has been fragmented and composing a talk it it's another world.
1:23.7	So I have this real ego attachment to my process.
1:28.8	And what I'm just discovering, I'm so attached to having my quiet space to really immerse and sense what feels important to say.
1:38.0	And I'm much more scattered, so I felt this real agitation wanting my quiet space fearing
1:47.0	that I wouldn't come through fearing that in some way you know I'd fall short
1:51.9	and it's been an amazing time just to practice letting go,
1:56.4	you know, over and over again letting go for this last week,
2:00.8	into the flow of her biology, her moods, and making peace with imperfection.
2:07.0	So classic story that many of you might be familiar with where a man is chased by a tiger and he jumps off the edge of a cliff hanging by the root of a tree and you know tigers pacing above and ragged cliffs below and he yells
2:27.9	out help and you know hears a booming voice yes.
2:31.9	He said God God is voice, yes. He said, God, is that you? Yes. Well, help.
2:37.1	God says, just let go. And the man says, is anybody else there?
2:44.8	And we know that from the ego's perspective,
2:48.7	the last thing we want to do is to release the grip to let go. It's core conditioning that like all
2:57.9	living creatures in the face of fear we hold on tight to whatever we think will protect us from loss and from death.
3:07.0	Controlling comes from feeling threatened.
3:10.0	And while certainly we're trying to protect ourselves from physical death, a lot of the time
3:16.9	we're trying to protect ourselves, it's really protecting ourselves from ego death, you know, from being rejected, from being rejected,
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