True Resilience: Part 2 - Awakening through All Circumstances (2017-08-30)

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🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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True Resilience: Part 2 - Awakening through All Circumstances - Spiritual resilience enables us to deepen compassion and wisdom as we navigate life’s difficulties. In this two part series, we will look at the conditions that incline us towards or away from True Resilience, and explore practical and powerful practices that nourish this precious capacity.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.0	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:10.2	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.9	Namaste and welcome.
0:30.6	One of the great classical metaphors to guide us in spiritual life is of an ocean and waves,
0:38.4	with the understanding that all the thoughts and feelings and behaviors and sensations
0:46.0	are waves and patterns of waves that move through us and that we are the ocean.
0:53.3	We include those waves but we're not defined by them.
0:57.0	We're not limited to them.
1:00.0	And that if we remember where the ocean, we're not going to be afraid of the waves.
1:06.6	And if we forget that we're the ocean, we're going to be seasick most every day.
1:12.6	And the reason I like that is because as we know, we forget our vastness, our oneness,
1:20.1	the depth of who we are regularly and we know how reactive we are, how all we need is
1:27.3	an email that sounds slightly critical or that places a timeline on us we didn't think
1:32.3	we had and all of a sudden our body gets tightened up and our mind starts spinning.
1:39.1	No ocean there in those moments.
1:42.3	So that's the beginning of tonight's exploration which is this is part two of what I've called
1:50.8	the resilient spirit and the inquiry is what does it really mean to be resilient and
1:57.2	how do we cultivate it?
2:00.3	And the way I've been defining resilience is that this understanding that as the waves
2:06.3	get stirred up or extras sticky grabbing us, possessing our attention that resilience
2:13.4	means it actually in some way moves us to call on more creativity and more intelligence
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