Part 2 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-01)

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part II on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part III on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.4	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:25.2	Namaste and welcome.
0:29.9	I'd like to begin this talk with a brief story, a teaching story that's really Western
0:36.9	wisdom and this is of a reporter who is interviewing a very well-known successful bank president
0:45.2	and his opening question was what is the secret of your success and the response is two words
0:55.6	and what's there are they, right decisions.
0:59.8	And how do you make right decisions?
1:02.7	One word and what is that, sir?
1:06.0	Experience.
1:07.0	And how do you get experience?
1:08.7	Two words.
1:10.5	And what is that, sir?
1:12.4	Wrong decisions.
1:17.2	I was reflecting on this and I remembered one of the lines from Zen Master Dogan which is
1:24.6	that we must make one mistake after another in this life.
1:30.0	And I was thinking, okay, so what does that really mean?
1:35.0	And really getting the word mistake, not taking accurately and that the very nature of our
1:41.0	existence is that we come into this universe and we kind of perceive a separateness and we
1:45.9	start developing all our behaviors around this separate self that feels threatened and
1:51.1	that needs more.
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