Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness - Coming Home to Embodied Presence

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🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—being cut off from our vitality, intelligence and compassion. We then explore the teachings and practices that guide us to reconnect to our senses, and the sacred presence that underlies all lived experience.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:06.5	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really matters.
0:12.4	To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com.
0:15.9	Thank you.
0:28.9	Namaste and welcome.
0:33.5	Tonight is the second of a two-part series.
0:36.6	You didn't have to be here for the first.
0:39.4	They stand on their own, but you might want to listen to it.
0:42.6	The title is Refuge in the Wilderness.
0:45.5	The wilderness being nature, our senses, this body.
0:51.1	So as you listen, you might keep inviting yourself back into what's right here, the
0:57.4	aliveness right here.
1:00.6	There's a classic story.
1:02.1	I've always loved a novice monk and a monastery and he goes to the master.
1:07.4	He's could have been contemplating hard on something.
1:09.8	He says, I need to know, please tell me what happens after we die.
1:16.1	And the head monk said, I don't know.
1:21.0	And the novice got disturbed.
1:22.4	He said, I thought you were a monk.
1:24.4	And the response was, I am, but not a dead one.
1:32.2	Some of you were here when Ajahn Somato was teaching on Saturday and he described in
1:39.1	Thailand how when asked about what they're aware of, what the monastics do, when they're
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