Longing to Belong: Bringing Presence through the Three Refuges

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Longing to Belong - Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of awareness itself. This talk includes guided meditations in exploring each gateway. It ends with the community chanting of Om, a mantra of connectedness - an expression of belonging.

NOTE: a talk from the archives 2009-12-09 reflecting on the "Three Refuges."

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:13.8	Tonight I'd like to begin by sharing a story, talked to a friend recently and she was describing
0:31.8	her experience of her mom's death and described how her mom had congestive heart failure and
0:41.4	was rushed to the hospital and put on life support when she was kind of drowning in a sense.
0:47.8	And after a while her eyes were open but the person that was there wasn't there, there before
0:55.6	it wasn't there. And the way it happens is the doctors would ask her to squeeze their
1:01.3	hand, a letter, just to make sense if there was any consciousness. At first she could squeeze
1:07.0	back some but after a while the doctors would ask her and she, there was no response but when my
1:14.0	friend was holding her mother's hand and said, mom, if you're hearing me please squeeze because the
1:18.8	hearing's the last to go. There was still a squeeze. Her mother could respond to her and she said
1:23.9	it got to the point the way she described it. There was nothing else left but this kind of brainstem
1:30.9	to brainstem connection, some primal connection of knowing. And the way she described it she said
1:39.7	that feeling that primal connection was her refuge. She could be with this whole process of dying by
1:48.9	really sensing the power and depth of that connection so that even after her mom was gone that was
1:57.8	what gave her a sense of being able to have space in her life for what was going on. I share that
2:07.4	story because I've been reflecting a lot on our longing in a very deep way to sense belonging. How
2:17.0	absolutely essential it is to each of us for the health of our body and mind and spirit to sense
2:23.8	belonging. That's the very heart of what we long for and to feel in some way connected with
2:32.6	something greater than the way we sense this separate self to be. And that longing arises from a
2:41.0	wisdom and the wisdom is the intuition of the truth that we belong. That there is something in us that
2:48.9	intuits connectedness. And there are many moments we touch it. Sometimes we just race right over it
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