Part 2: The Lion's Roar

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🗓️ 16 May 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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2012-05-16 - Part 2: The Lion's Roar - The Buddha taught that faith--trust in our true nature--is intrinsic to the spiritual path and the expression of wisdom. These two talks investigate the practices of presence that awaken our faith and the freedom that arises when our faith becomes radiant and full. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations make a difference!

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0:00.0	Last week the talk was entitled The Lion's Roar and The Lion's Roar is a phrase that
0:24.5	comes in the Tibetan tradition and it's a proclamation that everything is
0:30.9	workable. It's a proclamation of faith that this life whatever presents is
0:36.7	workable. Now by workable it doesn't mean that you're not going to get sick and
0:43.9	get old and die and lose jobs and things like that. It's not that kind of a
0:49.4	it's workable. It's a deeper sense that whatever happens, whatever happens,
0:57.2	it's possible to find a sense of peace and freedom in the midst and that when we do
1:06.4	that gives us a heart and this is the phrase I love the most a heart that's
1:11.8	ready for everything. A kind of undefended openness because we're not
1:17.0	tensing against the future. We get to live this life. That's the gift of faith.
1:23.8	We get to live the moment and because our hearts aren't so armored against
1:30.2	what's going to happen, live in a very with a very undefended heart. What I'd
1:37.0	like to do tonight is continue exploring this heart that can be ready for
1:43.1	anything. This lion's roar and do it by just talking some more about what ends
1:49.7	up nourishing faith. What gives us faith? How we get caught? How we get caught in
1:57.8	doubts. And then mostly I'd like to talk tonight about some of the gifts or
2:02.6	blessings that come as we come home to this knowing that it really is workable.
2:11.7	If I just said in a nutshell, what is the source of faith? And this is I think
2:18.7	common to all spiritual traditions. Our faith grows as we come to realize our
2:27.1	nature is not limited to this ego personality or body. As we begin to taste in a
2:35.6	very experiential way of belonging to something larger. You might call it to
2:42.1	loving presence or to spirit, to God, to this whole web of aliveness. And we have
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