Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 1 (2017-06-14)

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🗓️ 17 June 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 1 (2017-06-14) - Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing failure or rejection. This is true collectively too. We have shared stories of bad “others” that fuel wars, shared stories of the value of continued growth in consumption and production that destroy our earth, shared stories of our human right to enslave and violate other animals. We have the capacity to bring the stories that separate and imprison us into the light of awareness, and with great compassion, loosen their grip. These two talks look at the ways fear-based stories create suffering, and how awakening from them reveals the freedom of our true, and universal, belonging.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.6	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:25.0	We begin tonight with a story about the beloved Rabbi Shecter who was on his deathbed surrounded
0:31.5	by people that loved him and wanted to hear his final words of wisdom.
0:38.5	And in a faltering voice, he uttered, life is like a fountain.
0:44.3	And those circling around him passed the word out through the crowds and word went down
0:49.4	the long hall of people.
0:51.3	It was passed down the stairwells to the people thronging outside and finally got to the
0:56.2	outer edge of the crowd.
0:58.2	And a little boy was told the rabbi's words.
1:01.2	And he said, what does that mean?
1:04.6	People didn't know.
1:05.6	So they passed the boy's question back up through the crowds, up the stairs, through the
1:10.9	hallway, to those circling around to the closest assistant.
1:15.9	So he whispers the question to the rabbi's ear and the rabbi responds, so maybe it's not
1:22.7	like a fountain.
1:31.4	We humans are very attached to having stories, to creating some orientation and life that
1:39.5	gives us meaning to what's going on.
1:42.3	It's about who we are, who others are, what we have to do to be okay, what others should
1:49.0	do to be okay, you know, right, wrong, good, bad, and what's going to happen down the road.
1:55.2	It's all a part of our securing ourselves.
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