Radical Compassion - Part 1 (retreat talk) (2017-04-30)

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🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Radical Compassion - Part 1 (retreat talk) (2017-04-30) - Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and others - what I call Radical Compassion - has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. This two-part talk explores the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guides us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.7	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:19.3	Namaste and good evening.
0:28.1	I'm really feeling that sense of honoring the quality of your presence and engagement and
0:37.6	just really giving yourself to what we're doing here.
0:42.1	I just have felt the earnestness in general and of course in the groups.
0:47.2	And I think many people as you could see this today are really getting that core teaching
0:52.9	of it's not what's happening.
0:55.6	That's how we're relating.
0:58.7	You know if you scan just these two days and let's say there's some spots that you know
1:05.7	you were stuck, there were suffering.
1:09.4	And I'm kind of inviting you to do that right now.
1:11.5	Just remind yourself.
1:16.9	If you begin to investigate those spots of suffering, there was a way of relating to what
1:27.1	was going on in some way that was opposed to reality.
1:33.0	There was some opposition to what was happening.
1:36.3	So it might have been sleepiness and some background notion that sleepiness isn't as good
1:41.5	as wakefulness and you maybe weren't getting the most out of your retreat in those moments.
1:46.8	How many had a little bit of that one?
1:48.5	Can I see by hands?
1:50.0	I know how that one comes up for me.
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