Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24)

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🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24) - A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This capacity is blocked by our identification with our “mask” or ego self, and not seeing past other people’s masks. In this talk we reflect together on some key filters of superior/inferior and good/bad that shape the trance of a narrowed identity, and then explore how mindfulness and kindness free us to inhabit the vastness of our natural awareness. We close with tasting the possibility of bringing the spirit of Namaste to ourselves, others and all beings.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
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0:26.8	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.8	Those of you that are listening regularly, we always start with this gesture and word
0:38.0	of namaste.
0:40.0	And you might be aware that the word namaste is a way of greeting or bowing or honoring
0:47.9	the divine that lives through all of us.
0:51.8	And the gesture of the palms together in a slight bowing of the head is part of the embodying
0:58.2	that honoring.
1:00.7	And I love that.
1:01.7	I do a lot of bowing in my own practice because in the moments of going like this, there's
1:09.4	a tenderness and care that wakes up through it for the life that's really living through
1:16.5	all of us.
1:18.6	And I often contrast it in my mind because in Asia, people go around all the time, namaste,
1:26.0	and then in the west we shake hands.
1:27.9	And the origin fifth century BC is my hands empty.
1:31.3	I'm not carrying a weapon.
1:33.0	I'm not carrying a gun, which is a great step.
1:36.4	As we know, I'm safe, which is beautiful.
1:41.4	I sometimes think that because we're in this time of different currents around the globe
1:47.6	influencing how it would be in contemporary society, if that became part of our living
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