The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) (2019-12-28)

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🗓️ 3 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) (2019-12-28) - We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.” We look at the power of mindfulness and compassion to undo resistance, and open us to the loving presence that can handle whatever energies arise. This special talk was given at the 2019 IMCW 5-Day New Year’s Silent Retreat.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
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0:12.9	Good evening. It's nice to be here. It feels very cozy. The end of the first day is always
0:33.0	got its own particular feeling. Like there's some sort of a sense of bearing witness to like,
0:39.9	well, how did that first day go? And for some there may have been a real stream of stillness and bliss
0:48.2	that may be one or two of you. Others might be, you know, in that I thought this was club med and it's not.
0:58.4	It's completely different and many, many sittings and how much that affects the body and it's unfamiliar.
1:06.3	And so I wanted to just ask a few questions and actually look around as I ask for these hand raises,
1:13.3	how many of you felt like you struggled with sleepiness today? Can I see my hands? Okay, look around
1:19.5	just to you. Okay. How many restless scattered distracted? I'm seeing the same hands.
1:30.5	Okay. How many working with some physical discomfort or pain? Okay. Self-judgment.
1:44.4	I'm a major all here. You stayed. What's it like when you look around and see that maybe 75% of the room
1:57.6	is joined you and having these different experiences. Does it change anything to see how many others?
2:06.7	How many, when you notice that, there's some shift in perspective. Can I see hands? Yeah.
2:13.1	I asked that, harkening back to something often that, especially in the old days, we used to play with at retreats,
2:22.3	which was to imagine as you're sitting there that all the thoughts and feelings you're having
2:28.4	are coming from the person sitting behind you. Okay. And that it starts being less personal
2:36.0	when we realize that it's not so much my sleepiness as just the energy of sleepiness that is usually
2:46.2	80% of a group struggle of sleepiness on the first day, it really shifts our relationship to it.
2:55.2	And there's a universal delusion that turns unpleasantness to suffering. And that is that what's
3:02.2	going on right now is my fault that I should be able to control this and that it should be different.
3:10.3	If you unpack that, in other words, if you don't add on there's something wrong with how it's happening,
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