Part 2 - Healing Anxiety - How Meditation Frees Us (2018-12-12)
Tara Brach
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The Unprepared Existential Predicament
Every one of us is in the same existential predicament that first noble truth. What we're exploring is how we can discover the freedom of noticing what's happening and regarding it with presence and kindness. A story by O'Riah Mountain Dancer has always touched me. She describes being after a class that she was teaching a workshop when someone asked her if she could do meditation on her own. Her voice took on a whining quality and I felt my irritation rise as she continued. How fast will it work? Will I feel a difference after a week? How will I know it's working? This is exactly the kind of thing I detested. The quest for a quick fix or guaranteed outcomes
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