Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve our freedom. Key to this process is reconnecting with our inner life, and remembering we are in this together, awakening together.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
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0:31.0	Namaste. Welcome friends.
0:35.0	There's an experience most of us are familiar with and it's knowing that there's something we do that's not good for us but not being able to change it.
0:47.0	And you know, it could be some behavior related to eating or drugs or sleeping or working, video games.
0:55.0	It could be an inner behavior that we do fantasizing or worrying or obsessing.
1:01.0	But whatever it is, some part of us knows it's keeping us from being all we can be.
1:09.0	It's keeping us from really living the life that's most aligned with our heart and our spirit.
1:16.0	And these habits are all forms of addiction, compulsively doing something that causes harm.
1:25.0	And even though the degree of the compulsion and the harm varies greatly, on a path of healing, on a path of awakening, these inner and outer behaviors are a call for attention.
1:43.0	There are a signal of trance really that we're in some habitual way, leaving who we are, leaving our full presence, leaving wholeness.
1:54.0	And if we identify these places and offer our attention and our care, the places of trance become this very powerful portal to insight to healing layers of our beings.
2:12.0	And we hadn't been really paying attention to and really to true spiritual transformation.
2:20.0	So we'll be exploring this, how we unhook from unhealthy behaviors, the subtle and more obvious addictions.
2:30.0	We'll be doing it this week and next maybe even another, I'm not sure how long it'll take.
2:38.0	Maybe it's a starting place in Buddhist mythology, the suffering of addictions, discarded in a very vivid way as the realm of hungry ghosts.
2:50.0	Some of you may be familiar with this.
2:52.0	So it's the imagery as creatures with these scrawny necks and these bloated empty bellies.
3:00.0	And they're trying to seek gratification from the outside to quiet this insatiable yearning they have.
3:09.0	So it's wanting and grasping and nothing they do can really satisfy.
3:15.0	And so this is really comes out of understanding what are described as the first two noble truths in Buddhism.
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