Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24)

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🗓️ 26 January 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24) - 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 two 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.
0:05.0	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.1	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:25.4	Namaste and welcome.
0:29.2	I'd like to start this class with a reading from Ram Das, who's one of the great spiritual teachers of the era.
0:38.2	He writes this.
0:39.2	He says, when you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees.
0:45.2	And some of them are bent and some of them are straight and some of them are ever green and some are them or whatever.
0:50.2	And you look at a tree and you allow it.
0:53.2	You see why it's the way it is.
0:55.2	You sort of understand that it didn't get enough light and so it turned that way.
1:00.2	And you don't get all emotional about it. You just allow it.
1:03.2	You appreciate the tree.
1:05.2	The minute you get near humans, you lose all that.
1:08.2	And you're constantly saying you're to this or I'm to this and that judging mind comes in.
1:13.2	And so I practice turning people into trees, which means appreciating them just the way they are.
1:26.2	There's something beautiful and touching about sensing that we could move through life and pick up the conditioning that shaped each other and shaped ourselves.
1:40.2	And since the goal, the light, the essential goodness, regardless, just allow.
1:51.2	And this is part two of a three part series that I'm doing and it's fine if you weren't here last time or didn't listen.
1:59.2	But it's a three part series on freedom from othering.
2:04.2	And it's that judging mind that turns others into others and creates the separations that really cause suffering.
2:15.2	So I've been doing the different levels of othering and we started with the more societal level and tonight we're going to look at how we can bad other each other.
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