Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance - If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation–actively inquiring into what is happening inside us. When we investigate with sincere interest and care, the light of our attention untangles difficult emotions and nourishes intimate relationships. As this light is turned toward awareness itself, it reveals the radiance and emptiness of our true nature.

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0:00.0	Greetings.
0:04.2	We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:09.3	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:19.1	I'd like to begin tonight with a phrase from the poly script.
0:30.8	It's a he Paseco.
0:33.6	And it's a phrase that I've always loved because the meaning is come and see for yourself.
0:41.7	And my sense is on all authentic paths, spiritual paths, transformational paths, you just can't
0:50.3	simply listen and believe what you're told.
0:53.6	The only way the path comes alive is if you're then checking it out, if you're bringing
0:59.6	your attention to your own experience and sensing, okay, how does this work?
1:04.4	If you're experimenting.
1:07.2	So in a way, as a teacher, become kind of like the welcome door mat, like saying, hey,
1:12.4	welcome, but you have to walk through the door.
1:15.0	It's not my word.
1:16.0	It's your experience of things.
1:17.9	So Ahee Paseco really speaks about investigation.
1:22.8	And that's going to be our theme tonight, which is how do we take these minds of ours and
1:29.4	investigate our experience in a way that really reveals truth that shows us what reality
1:36.4	is.
1:37.4	Okay?
1:38.4	It's in the Buddhist traditions described as one of the factors of enlightenment investigation.
1:45.5	Because really, it's this quality of interest that takes the light of awareness and shines
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