The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24)

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🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24) - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These two talks explore misunderstandings about surrender (such as the fear that we will become passive or condone injustice) and the practices that create the grounds for surrender, emotional healing, transformational activism and spiritual freedom.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:07.8	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:13.5	Namaste and welcome. This class is part two of the path of surrender. We had a skip
0:32.2	a week due to me having to surrender to illness as sometimes happens, but so I'm
0:37.1	deeper in this path of surrender now to share with you all my revelations. I
0:41.8	thought I'd start with one of my favorite stories from Kafka. Some of you might
0:47.7	remember this. It's really quite lovely that when he was an older man, he used to
0:52.4	visit a park regularly and he'd spend time sitting in a park and one day he a
0:57.5	little girl was walking by him as he had tears running down her face and he asked
1:03.1	her to stop and tell him what was wrong and so she told her that she was
1:07.6	missing her doll. Her doll had been lost. And he said he'd help her look around.
1:12.6	They looked around together and they tried to find it, but she left me, said he'd
1:17.1	keep looking. He didn't find it. Well, she came back a few days later and Kafka
1:23.5	said, well there's no doll. I couldn't find it, but I did find a note. And this is
1:28.9	what it says. And then he read from the note, I've gone off to travel some
1:33.5	around the world. Please don't worry about me. I'm fine. So the girl's somewhat
1:39.1	relieved and she returned to the park every week or so and each time she
1:43.5	returned, Kafka would be there with a note telling her about some of the
1:47.8	wild and fun and beautiful adventures that this little doll was having around
1:52.0	the world. Well, at one point he got much sicker and he went to the park one last
1:57.8	time and that last time he brought a doll. And he handed it to the little girl and
2:03.4	he said that the travels had changed her. Well, some years later when the girl was a
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