An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart (2019-06-05)

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart (2019-06-05) - Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom and care. This talk explores the pathway of shifting from reacting to responding: this includes learning to pause, awakening the wings of mindfulness and kindness, and reconnecting with our deepest intention.

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.9	Namaste and blessings.
0:28.8	I'd like to begin with one of my very favorite all-time wisdom teachings.
0:34.1	This is called spiritual fitness and if you've been with me for a while, I hope I've shared
0:39.4	it with you because it's such a good one.
0:41.9	If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills, if you can be cheerful ignoring
0:47.9	aches and pains, if you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, if you
0:54.3	can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time, and if you can overlook
0:59.4	when people take things out on you and through no fault of yours, something goes wrong.
1:04.4	If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, if you can face the world without
1:09.7	lies and deceit, if you can conquer tension without medical help, if you can relax without
1:15.2	liquor, if you can sleep without the aid of drugs, then you are probably a dog.
1:23.9	If most of us are honest and we are bearing witness to ourselves when we are stressed out,
1:41.3	we will recognize we are acting in ways that really don't reflect our best, that aren't
1:49.2	really who we want to be or not living from our most awake self.
1:56.4	One of the most interesting inquiries I've heard is the old Zen story is that a student
2:04.2	visits a dying teacher and he asks them as often happens, what's the teaching of your
2:09.6	entire lifetime, what's the Pith teaching, and the teacher replies an appropriate response.
2:19.3	That's the teaching.
2:21.2	Now that might sound very dry, like you think he might be saying, you know, communion with
2:27.3	the great mystery or dissolving into boundless love or whatever, but the teaching, the accomplishment,
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