
Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom
Tara Brach
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The Practice of Letting Go and Finding Freedom
Support our podcasts at tarbrok.com. In a monastery, a novice asks the abbot how long it will take to be enlightened. The abbot says 10 years, then 20 years if the novice tries harder. The lesson is that striving and controlling hinder liberation. Buddha taught that peace and freedom come from letting go and being present. We are conditioned to think something is missing and we clench, but true ease and aliveness come from non-clinging. Lester Levinson, founder of the Sedona method, found healing when facing a death sentence by dropping his ideas and inquiring directly into life.
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