Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure (2020-05-13)

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure (2020-05-13) - Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to stay with the feelings, failure can become a portal to the realization of who we are beyond the imperfect separate self. This talk calls on Samuel Beckett’s wonderful quote (referenced by Pema Chödron), “Fail, Fail again, Fail better,” and offers guidance on finding freedom as we move through some of our most difficult moments.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.4	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:23.9	Namaste and welcome.
0:28.0	We're together here for the eighth now of our sheltering in love talks.
0:33.9	And last week we explored the prison of blaming others.
0:39.2	And this week I'd like to reflect together on how we're relating to our inner experience,
0:44.9	our relationship with our inner life.
0:48.4	Recently I saw one of those viral emails and it said breaking news, wearing a mask inside
0:54.9	your home is now highly recommended, not so much to prevent COVID-19, but to stop eating.
1:04.2	And I was just reflecting on this universal human tendency we have whenever we feel uncomfortable,
1:12.6	whenever we feel restless or fearful or distressed, we try to seek a way out of it.
1:19.4	We try to get rid of the feeling.
1:21.4	We try to get away from the feeling.
1:23.9	And of course with lockdown to whatever degree it's impacting your life, there's fewer
1:31.0	escapes, exit strategies.
1:33.0	So of course there's that tendency to leave by either overeating or over sleeping or
1:40.8	busying ourselves or online addictions or just obsessing.
1:48.1	And one of the big ways that we leave is chronic judgment as I mentioned we judge others,
1:54.4	but we also turn on ourselves for our habits and for more.
1:59.9	It's another way of leaving.
2:02.4	So from the perspective of deep healing, from the perspective of spiritual awakening, the
2:09.6	heart of the path is learning to stay, learning to stay with whatever waves of emotional
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