Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 - 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.
0:03.6	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.8	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.5	Namaste friends.
0:32.1	Welcome and thank you for being with us.
0:36.3	As some of you may know, I was introduced to meditation in college.
0:40.9	It was almost five decades ago.
0:44.8	And one of the most central teachings, the one that arises over and over again is that
0:53.3	we heal and awaken through an embodied mindfulness.
0:57.1	We awaken through our bodies.
1:00.5	And the reason I keep re-encountering is there's such a strong trance.
1:05.1	It's very deep in our culture.
1:07.1	One teacher was asked to describe modern society and his response was lost in thought.
1:15.7	You might have noticed we spend a huge amount of time in that virtual reality of our mind.
1:23.3	James Joyce has that famous line, Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
1:32.2	So if we look back on today, how much really embodied presence awake in our senses.
1:41.0	And yet if we think of the moments that most matter to us, feeling our hearts open, feelings
1:47.9	of wonder, gratitude, aliveness, we're experiencing our body.
1:55.9	So this week and next, I've selected two favorite talks from the archives that invite us to
2:02.6	explore this mystery and aliveness and the realization that arises as we wake up through
2:09.1	our bodies.
2:11.4	May you find benefit.
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