Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1
Tara Brach
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You Can't Control the Controller
We get addicted to controlling. It's driven by the fears of our survival brain. But there's some intelligence that can say, okay, experiment a little. You don't have to always control. Just pause. This is really the deep teaching. We need to learn when it's wise to take our hands off the control. And this was described very beautifully in the movie The Horse Whisperer. So you can think of Pelgrom as the kind of limbic out of control or over-controller that would just dash off or be dangerous to others.
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