Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31)

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🗓️ 3 February 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) - 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 three 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.
0:05.9	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.0	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:17.8	Namaste and welcome.
0:32.1	We just had right before starting somebody fainted and I just am so struck by the immediate
0:43.6	response of holding and care and kind of connection that arises when we humans are vulnerable
0:52.7	or in trouble and it fits very much with the theme of tonight.
0:59.1	This is the third of a three-part series and if you haven't been, this is your first
1:05.4	time ever, it's okay, it'll stand alone, I hope.
1:09.0	On other things, we have this habit of creating separation out of fear.
1:15.7	They all go together because they're from the same root of fear.
1:19.5	The first one we focused on how we do it societally and how we make others inferior or superior
1:26.2	and how in doing that, really we go into a trance and we can't be whole.
1:32.8	The second one is how we do it in our personal life, how we so quickly judge and make others
1:37.4	bad and this class will look at how we turn on ourselves and we know we have this capacity
1:48.7	in us as we saw just so quickly to immediately sense our commonality and extending care and
2:00.5	that's part of our evolutionary capacity and it's beautiful and we also have a very primitive
2:07.1	part of us that in a moment's notice can contract and pull back and feel the other's
2:13.1	enemy are contract and go to war with ourselves.
2:17.0	We're going to look at that.
2:19.7	The common denominator and any time we get into othering is that we are in a trance where
2:28.5	our perceptions get narrowed and get torqued.
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