Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part I we will look at how we can intentionally arouse states of wellbeing, and with practice, develop them into ongoing traits that bring presence and joy to our lives. In Part II, we will investigate how to cultivate an unconditional presence, and the radical acceptance and love, that are the grounds of true happiness and inner freedom.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.3	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.0	Namaste, welcome friends.
0:32.7	One of my favorite all-time stories about the Dalai Lama was when he was interviewed
0:37.8	by network news after publishing his book on happiness.
0:42.4	And the question they gave him was, what was the happiest moment of your life?
0:49.0	And he had that mischievous look before responding.
0:51.7	And then he said, I think now we have all these misguided notions.
0:59.6	So what's going to bring us happiness?
1:01.6	What's going to make us happy?
1:02.9	What else stop us from being happy?
1:05.6	And then we have habits, ways of paying attention that kind of lock us into a certain
1:10.4	range of moods.
1:13.0	True happiness is a natural expression of our being when we're open and present.
1:19.1	And far from being a self-centered emotion, when we're happiest, we're actually free
1:25.1	from our self-narrative.
1:28.4	So friends, this has all been on my mind, the nature of happiness, the pathways to happiness.
1:34.1	And I've selected from the archives two talks that I really like for this week and next
1:39.5	that really explore how we cultivate our capacity for happiness.
1:44.6	It's an inquiry into happiness that I think is powerful and beautiful and potentially life
1:51.4	changing.
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