Relaxing the Over-Controller - Part 2 (2017-05-03) (retreat talk)

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🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Relaxing the Over-Controller - Part 2 (2017-05-03) (retreat talk) - We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our experience. These two talks look at the emergence of the fear based “over-controller,” and explore a wise way of witnessing the suffering that comes with over-controlling, and awareness practices that naturally relax and awaken us to our whole and natural Being.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:06.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.4	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.9	I'd like to begin with a story that was told by Rabbi Zalman when he'd be on the circuit
0:35.2	about his five-year-old daughter, Shalvi, which, and I love this story.
0:40.8	Good morning, she wakes up and she says, Abba, which is father, and she says,
0:46.3	you know how when you're asleep and dreaming, it seems so real.
0:50.0	And then you wake up and realize it was just a dream.
0:54.6	Well, when you're awake, can you wake up that much more and realize that this is just a dream?
1:04.9	And I wonder how many of you have been sensing more and more, just more increasingly,
1:11.3	how many swaths of moments were inside that kind of a bubbler dream.
1:16.8	Can I just see, is that something?
1:18.8	Yeah.
1:19.8	Okay.
1:20.8	When we're in a dream, we're the central character.
1:24.8	You know, it's like the world, it's like we're the protagonist moving through life.
1:29.2	And we're usually talking to ourselves.
1:31.2	It's about really getting what we want.
1:35.0	Here it might be, you know, can I get that hot shower, you know, or that nap or, you know,
1:40.8	being in front of the lunch line or it's the self that wants the bill to ring, you know.
1:46.8	And when we're in that dream, we're also avoiding what's unpleasant, you know,
1:55.1	whether it's about being late or being too hot or too cold or like falling asleep.
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