Part 2 - Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-14)

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🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Part 2 - Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-14) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:16.7	I'm going to stay and welcome.
0:29.6	In our last talk, we explored coming back to the wilderness of our own bodies as a real
0:36.7	portal to freedom.
0:38.6	And we'll continue that tonight.
0:42.2	The basic teaching being that it's only if we're awake right here in this living body
0:49.7	that we really can connect with what we most cherish in life.
0:55.9	Whether it's wisdom, it comes from being awake in the moment.
0:59.6	In the body, intuition, love, creativity.
1:05.0	I always think of an Indian teacher whose name was Muninderji who was asked how come
1:10.9	he meditated and his response was so that I'll see the tiny purple flowers by the side of
1:18.2	the road as I walk to town each day.
1:22.9	His teaching was to live the life fully and that the only way come right here into this
1:30.0	body.
1:31.5	And I can say for myself that if there's one repeating realization I have over and over
1:37.4	again, it's the way home, the way back to everything I value is to notice I've been
1:44.3	often that virtual reality of thoughts and to say, oh, okay, come back.
1:50.8	It doesn't matter how deeply I know that.
1:54.1	Of course I go off into the trans-of-thinking and have to go, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, it's about
1:58.9	being really here.
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