The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1 (2016-02-10)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 13 February 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening (2016-02-10) - Parts I and II - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks explore how inquiry serves emotional healing by focusing on difficult “stuck” places, how inquiry enables us to become more intimate and understanding of others, and in the deepest way, how inquiry can reveal the deepest truth of what we are…our true nature. The talks include several guided reflections that can enrich your meditation practice and serve spiritual awakening.
"True inquiry doesn't land on an answer. It opens to a mystery that's meant to be lived."
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:06.6 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really matters. |
| 0:12.5 | To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. |
| 0:29.3 | I was young. |
| 0:32.7 | When I was young, my father took great pleasure in entertaining my siblings and myself. |
| 0:38.8 | I remember one story from a camping trip, a family camping trip, where he described two |
| 0:45.3 | men who were spiritualists. |
| 0:47.2 | They had seances and so on. |
| 0:49.9 | They had a consuming curiosity about what happened after we died. |
| 0:54.3 | They made a pack and the pack was that whoever died first would appear through a seance |
| 1:00.2 | and describe the afterlife. |
| 1:03.2 | Some months went by after one of them died and the other, they kept having these seances |
| 1:09.3 | but nothing happened. |
| 1:11.0 | I think it was about eight months later, maybe let's say ten months, whatever gestation |
| 1:16.0 | period and other creature needs or life needs, contact was made. |
| 1:21.5 | It was with great excitement that the friends of voice appeared and so his living body said, |
| 1:29.2 | oh, what's it like? |
| 1:30.4 | He said, well, we eat and we have sex and then we sleep and then we eat some more and we |
| 1:37.1 | have more sex and we sleep and his friends said, that's what it's like in heaven? |
| 1:42.6 | He said, oh, no, no, no, I'm a moose in Wyoming. |
| 1:52.4 | So growing up, that was one of my all-time favorites. |
| 1:55.7 | No, why? |
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