Saying "Yes" - Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Saying "Yes" - Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25) - Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This talk helps us recognize these often unconscious patterns that keep us identified with a separate, threatened self, and offers guidance in saying "yes" to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our unbound, true, nature.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:04.9 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference. |
| 0:10.1 | To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's a well-known Tibetan master from the 11th century Nalorepa. |
| 0:33.0 | He was known for composing all these wonderful stories and songs. |
| 0:38.0 | I'd like to share with you the most famous of them, the one that I've heard the most. |
| 0:44.0 | In this he describes himself as leaving his cave to gather firewood. |
| 0:49.8 | When he comes back, he finds that the cave is filled with demons. |
| 0:53.3 | They've totally taken over the joint. |
| 0:56.9 | He's got to get rid of these guys. |
| 1:00.2 | He blunders at them and tries to push them away and fight them and so on, tries to force them. |
| 1:07.4 | They're totally unfazed. |
| 1:09.0 | In fact, the more he tries to get rid of them, the more they settle back and get comfortable. |
| 1:16.7 | He realized that he's failed miserably at fighting the demons. |
| 1:21.2 | His next approach is he's going to teach them the Dharma. |
| 1:26.8 | Now by that means he's going to kind of try to be rational and explain to them why they |
| 1:33.7 | can go by by basically. |
| 1:37.2 | That's what he does. |
| 1:39.2 | He talks about existence and non-existence and impermanence and compassion and kindness. |
| 1:46.8 | He just stared him with these big, bulging eyes glazed over. |
| 1:51.7 | That didn't work. |
| 1:53.6 | He takes a deep breath of surrender and he gets that they're not going to be manipulated |
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