Part 1 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-17)

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🗓️ 20 January 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us - Part 1 - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us to creating a bad self and turn on ourselves. These three talks explore how we subscribe to societal myths and beliefs that perpetuate this “bad othering,” and “bad selfing." They then guide us in bring a healing attention that can reveal the goodness that lives through all beings, and our innate connectedness. A core teaching is, “the boundary to who we include in our hearts is the boundary to our freedom.”

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:06.3	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:18.2	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.4	Start with a short teaching story.
0:33.5	A linguistics professor was lecturing in his class on day and he was basically saying
0:39.1	that in English two negatives make a positive and he continued in some languages like Russian
0:47.9	two negatives still remain a negative but he said there's no language where two positives
0:55.0	make a negative and then there was a voice in the back of the room that said yeah right.
1:06.4	So I begin with some version of the negativity bias which we talk about a lot.
1:13.1	The survival brain that is basically scanning for what's wrong and the negativity bias means
1:21.1	we're looking for where there might be a threat whether it's in ourselves or in others.
1:27.6	What it basically leads to is what I've come to call bad othering where we perceive others
1:35.7	and there's mistrust and there's a sense of danger and we just add on bad.
1:41.7	This is a bad person and it happens on a societal level and it happens in our relationships
1:49.5	and it happens we bad other ourselves and we turn into an object to ourselves and bad
1:55.3	other ourselves.
1:57.6	So for this class and the next this will be a two part series.
2:02.2	I want to explore freedom from othering really from any othering because any othering creates
2:09.3	separation.
2:11.0	How we undo the myths that imprison us and as you can imagine in some deep way this is
2:20.8	really about including and sensing a reverence for life and it's in honor of really the
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