Releasing Limiting Beliefs (2015-09-09)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2015

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Releasing Limiting Beliefs (2015-09-09) - If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.

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0:00.0	Greetings. I'm Tara Brock and I'd like to welcome you to these podcasts. While the talks
0:08.5	and meditations are offered freely, we'd very much appreciate your support. To make a donation
0:14.9	or learn more about my schedule, please visit tarbrach.com and our IMCW.org. Thank you.
0:30.0	Namaste. There's a story Rabbi Zalman used to tell about his daughter, a youngest daughter,
0:53.0	Shalvi, who is about five years old at the time. One morning she woke up and said to him,
0:59.7	Abba, which means father, you know how when you're asleep and dreaming, it seems so real and then you
1:06.3	wake up and realize that it's a dream? When you're awake, can't you wake up that much more and realize
1:14.5	that this is just a dream? Pretty wise, right? So when we inquire in that way ourselves, when we
1:26.1	explore what's really this moment between me and a full presence, a full wakefulness, what we
1:34.5	shine a light on is a kind of dream like state where there's a movie going on and it's starring
1:42.0	Moa, we're the protagonist and there's a whole rolling and reactivity of feelings and thoughts and
1:50.6	behaviors that we're living inside and we start to recognize that it's much of the time of virtual
1:59.4	reality. In other words, we're living in a story about what's happening. We're not directly contacting
2:05.9	our senses and what's immediate and what's right here. Last week, the talk, the key element of the
2:13.7	talk was really our thoughts and our inner narrative and how much our thoughts keep fueling a kind
2:21.1	of reactive looping where we stay stuck and really to begin to unstuck ourselves, we have to be able
2:29.0	to recognize thinking and step out of it, re-contact our senses and our heart. What I'd like to do in
2:36.7	this talk is focus on a particular domain of thinking we call beliefs and beliefs are really the
2:45.1	very strong ways that we have concluded this is how the world is or this is how I am or this is
2:52.0	how other people are and so we'll be looking at them, we'll be looking at how deeply rooted they
2:59.4	are and how when they're fear-based as many of them are they in prison us. This is Woody Allen
3:09.3	where then any other time in history mankind faces the crossroads. One path leads to spare and utter
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