Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - (2017-12-30)

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🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - (2017-12-30) - The sign of spiritual freedom is a deep trust in our essential nature, and in the light of awareness that lives through all beings. This talk explores the conditioning that entraps us in a trance of separation and believing in a limited self. We then explore the evolutionary shift in identity that is possible as we deepen our attention and presence to the life that is here, and the loving awareness that is the source of existence.

This talk was given at the IMCW 2017 New Year's Retreat.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:05.9	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:11.0	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:17.8	Namaste and good evening.
0:24.8	So I thought I'd start with one of my favorite templates for the spiritual path.
0:40.5	I think it's a kind of microcosm when we are paying attention that it's like jumping off an airplane and realizing that we don't have a parachute.
0:53.5	And then realizing that there's no ground to hit because everything's changing.
1:00.5	And then realizing there really was no one that jumped.
1:06.5	The jumping off plane, there really is, there's no parachute.
1:09.5	We can't control what's happening.
1:11.5	You've got that one you know, right?
1:13.5	That it just happens.
1:15.5	And we start getting that we think we're going to hit ground, maybe we hit something, but then there's something else.
1:21.5	And something else, things keep changing.
1:23.5	And then the one that might seem more elusive is, but really nobody jumped.
1:28.5	It's not really happening to somebody.
1:30.5	It's happening, but not to somebody.
1:35.5	But we'll explore that a little.
1:37.5	It's part of what I'd like to look at.
1:40.5	When we're suffering, it feels very much like even though we don't have a parachute, we're trying to invent a parachute moment by moment.
1:50.5	We're trying to control.
1:52.5	And when we're suffering, even though things keep changing, we think that in some way we're stuck.
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