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Stepping Out of the Cave

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 16 January 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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2013-01-16 - Stepping Out of the Cave - If we are suffering it is because we are believing something that is not true. This talk explores the genesis of our core beliefs and the investigation, mindfulness and compassion that can release their grip. Please support this podcast by donating at www.tarabrach.com or www.imcw.org. Your donations allow us to continue to freely offer the teachings!

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Last year, several times, I mentioned what I had read from one pallet of caregiver who

0:24.4

described the most prevalent regret of people when they were dying. And it was, I

0:33.6

wasn't true to myself. I didn't live my life true to myself. I live more for the

0:39.4

expectation of others, according to the expectation of others. And related was,

0:45.6

I worked too hard. I didn't spend time with loved ones. I just didn't allow

0:52.2

myself to be happy. So I was reflecting on that and realizing that in a way, many

1:01.0

people I run into live with that undercurrent of feeling kind of disappointed or that my

1:08.0

life is really not aligned with what matters. And very, actually, acutely aware of the gap.

1:16.7

And that in some way, there's a sense that perhaps the most critical inquiry we can ever

1:24.2

really make is what right now is between me and living really aligned with what matters,

1:35.3

what is stopping me. And what I'd like to explore tonight is the way we have beliefs that are

1:43.3

often outside our consciousness that get in the way from really allowing ourselves to

1:51.8

feel at home with our own life, feel at home with other people really enjoy the moments. So I

2:00.6

want to explore beliefs tonight. I remember one of one friend of mine's wake up that was so

2:07.5

pronounced about the kind of beliefs we have with when she was with her mom as she was dying and

2:14.3

her mom was in a coma for a lot of the time. But at one point, she woke up and she looked my

2:21.1

friend directly in the eye. And she said, you know, all my life, I thought something was wrong

2:27.8

with me. And then she close her eyes went back into a coma and died soon after.

2:37.5

And for this woman who was accompanying her mom, it was in a way apart in gift because she was,

2:45.7

it was so obvious that that undercurrent that what I call the trance of unworthiness really had

2:55.5

her whole mother's life in a grip. And how that happens to different degrees to most of us

3:03.8

that we have beliefs that often reflect badly on ourselves and that we go through life in some way

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