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Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 27 June 2012

⏱️ 55 minutes

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2012-6-27 - Part 1 - Freedom: Seeing Who is Looking Through the Mask - We suffer when we are identified with our egoic conditioning and unable to recognize the spirit - the love and awareness - that animates our own and all beings. In this talk we explore how recognizing our vulnerability and basic goodness helps us to see through the mask and realize who is here. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations make a difference!

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On this early summer eve, I'd like to share one of my favorite stories, one of the legends

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from King Arthur.

0:26.4

And if you've been with me before, I think about a year and a half, I might have shared

0:30.2

it.

0:31.2

And if this is a familiar legend, then I'd like to invite you as you're listening to

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sense what characters you identify with, okay?

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So in this story, King Arthur is out wandering and, you know, doing his hunting and going through

0:46.4

the deep forest and encounters an enemy.

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He encounters a shadow knight who has great powers and he casts a spill over King Arthur

0:57.2

that renders him terrified and powerless.

1:02.0

And he basically says, I'll give you your life and your freedom.

1:06.3

If you can return in seven days with the answer to a question, and the question is, what

1:13.3

is it that all women most desire?

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That's the question, okay?

1:20.6

So you can start thinking about that if you haven't heard the answer already.

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So he agreed and he went around asking anyone he encountered to ask the girl, herding

1:29.8

geese and the L.Y. if he asked great ladies.

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And, you know, they said different things, but none of their responses really rang true.

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So he, the final morning, he was very heavy-hearted because he realized that he would have to

1:49.3

submit and die, he didn't know the answer.

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So I'm going to read you one of my favorite versions of it, I'll read you the rest of the

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story.

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