Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk)

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what) am I?” This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awareness, and the blessings of embodying the realization of our radiant, empty essence. This audio talk was first offered at the 2011 IMCW Fall Weeklong Retreat, and it includes several guided reflections.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.8	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:31.2	Namaste.
0:32.2	Welcome.
0:35.2	This week I was on a retreat a week long silent retreat so I didn't prepare a talk.
0:41.3	Instead I selected a talk that I'd given at a retreat some years ago and it looks at
0:48.9	the healing and the realization that's possible.
0:53.0	Really truly freeing our hearts as we deepen our practice.
0:58.9	As the saying goes, enlightenment is an accident and practice makes us accident prone.
1:07.5	So as this talk was given at a retreat there's no video and many might find this invite you
1:14.5	to go deeper into your own experience.
1:17.8	Okay friends may this serve your growing peace, open-heartedness and freedom.
1:25.3	Blessings.
1:30.6	Namaste.
1:35.7	In our Dharma talks these last evenings we end in a lot of the instructions and interviews.
1:45.7	A lot of the focus has been how to work with suffering and we've been appropriately
1:52.8	paying attention to the very realness of what's difficult and fear, grief, shame, anger.
2:05.0	So it's interesting to begin to look more closely at the moments where there's well-being
2:13.9	and to sense okay since you've been here.
2:18.7	The moments perhaps when you were outside and stopped and there was a sense of sky or
2:26.1	a smell of grass or look a color, a glint of the turning autumn leaves are there are countless
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