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Oct 2024
58m 16s

Freedom Beyond the Trance of Self

TARA BRACH
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The gift of meditation is awakening to the vast, radiant ever-creative beingness that is beyond the confines of a constricting self-sense. This talk explores how awake awareness can directly meet the clench of selfing - the thoughts, emotional tensions and core self-sense. When this occurs there's a spontaneous releasing into the full love, wakefulness and aliveness of our being. 

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