Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness

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🗓️ 27 January 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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2010-01-27 - Part 2 - Presence and Aliveness - These two talks explore how we leave our bodies, the challenge of working with pain, the pathway home to embodied awareness, and the gifts of presence and aliveness.

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0:00.0	Because I teach a lot about mindfulness, I get interesting things that are sent to
0:21.8	me and I want to read one of them to you.
0:24.5	It's about a group of friends who had never gone boating and decided to have an afternoon
0:29.6	of fun and rented a boat and trailer and they drove down to the water, put in the boat,
0:34.0	started the engine and the boat seemed to move a little but then it completely stopped
0:37.2	and they had no idea what was wrong.
0:39.7	They turned on and off the engine but it seemed to be fine.
0:42.9	Checked the gas.
0:44.2	Everything seemed to work in order but the boat just didn't move.
0:47.0	So they were frustrated and one of them drove back to the marina and one of the boat mechanics
0:51.2	followed them back to where the group was waiting.
0:54.5	Mechanic checked the motor, the gas, everything seemed fine.
0:57.6	He was really baffled so he decided to get under the water and take a look at the boat.
1:02.7	He came up choking and doubled over with laughter.
1:05.9	He couldn't speak and all he could do was just point under the boat.
1:09.3	Finally he let them know that the trailer was still under the boat.
1:19.4	Story of mindlessness or inexperience.
1:22.9	It's a silly story but I was reflecting on how most of the mistakes we make.
1:30.1	We make because we're not here.
1:32.2	In some way we've left.
1:34.2	We've sped up and got careless, got preoccupied.
1:38.6	We just weren't paying attention.
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