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🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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The Power of Spiritual Hope (2021-07-21) - The openness to possibility is essential on a path of awakening and freedom. In this talk we explore what makes up mature or spiritual hope, and how two meditation practices of presence can nourish our hope.
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0:26.0 | Greetings. Namaste. Welcome friends. I'm so glad you're with us for this gathering. |
0:33.1 | We'll be exploring in this talk the power of hope on the spiritual path, the power of really |
0:41.2 | trusting and possibility. And to begin with a little story of a modern day Buddha who |
0:48.5 | fell off the top of a high sky scraper. And as he's falling past the 10th floor window, |
0:56.6 | somebody pokes their head out and says, are you okay? His response is so far so good. |
1:05.2 | And so I start there to so that we can just from the get go, our common ground is that |
1:11.7 | the awakened hope we're exploring isn't a kind of delusional optimism. |
1:16.0 | And just to say this topic really drew me to I've been reflecting on it a lot and to share, |
1:24.4 | reflect together. It feels important because for many that have been in touch with me, |
1:31.2 | there's a sense of flagging hope. You know, our pandemic continues here in the United States |
1:38.8 | and very, very horrifically around the planet. And wildfires, heat waves, the dangers that are |
1:48.6 | right here now of climate change. And so much societal suffering and dividedness and also many |
1:56.4 | individuals are continuing to feel the isolation from the pandemic and a real sense of uncertainty |
2:04.4 | and anxiety, just feeling stuck emotionally or spiritually. So in addressing this, we'll begin |
2:13.2 | with the Buddha scriptures. This is the Buddha saying, if it were not possible to free the heart |
2:21.4 | from entanglement, I would not teach you to do so. Just because it is possible to free the heart, |
2:28.9 | there arises the teachings of the Dharma of liberation offered open handedly for the welfare of all |
2:35.6 | beings. It's such a powerful statement. If it were not possible to free the heart, I would not |
2:43.3 | teach you to do so. So an essential part of the spiritual path really is this trust |
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