The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk)

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) - We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the “second arrow” of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional reactivity, and the pathways of awakening awareness that reconnect us with our full human potential. (This talk was given at the 2016 IMCW fall silent retreat.)

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:03.6	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.8	To make a donation please visit tarbrock.com.
0:30.1	Namaste.
0:31.4	Welcome friends.
0:34.0	This week I have chosen a talk from the archives and it addresses one of the core challenges
0:40.7	so many people face and that's the habit of harsh self-judgment of getting caught in
0:48.7	self-aversion.
0:51.1	And I often think that the deepest truths are the ones that we forget the most regularly
0:57.5	and one of them is that when we're turned against ourselves in some way when we're down
1:03.9	on ourselves it's very difficult to let in love from others to feel genuinely close
1:11.4	with others to feel connected with our world.
1:16.6	Self-aversion cuts us off.
1:20.6	Years ago I came across a cartoon that showed a really happy peaceful dog and bed sleeping
1:27.4	with a headset on and the words coming through the headset were good doggy.
1:33.4	You're such a good doggy aren't you?
1:35.9	Oh yes you are.
1:37.9	And the caption at the bottom was canine affirmation tape.
1:43.0	And I love that because you know affirmations can help but the deep need what really transforms
1:51.6	us is by cultivating a very different relationship with our inner life than many of us have.
1:59.5	And that's one of listening of presence with what's really here and of being able to
2:08.1	hold ourselves, regard ourselves with care.
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