awake awareness

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In today’s episode we explore trust. The everyday trust we rely on to get things done and the trust we put into all kinds of strangers to do the right thing from the farm worker who picks our vegetables to the doctor who gives us a prescription. This includes the trust we have in the people with whom we have relationships—our friends, families, and partners. This trust is based on mutuality—I take care of you and you take care of me— and involves acting according to common agreement. We cannot live without this kind of trust. This kind of trust comes from the members of the community. It requires intention and discipline and connects us in a web of community sharing. It requires honesty, generosity, gratitude, compassion. and forgiveness.

Trust is fundamental to community. It is also fragile. It is often broken.

And there is another kind of trust—inner trust—that holds even when our everyday trust is broken to pieces. It is the trust that we rely on to know that life will unfold in the most harmonious way possible. That we will be OK, even when everything falls apart. It springs from the ground of being will holds us in communion in the great web of life no matter what. And, we can access it by letting go of all the content of life—the thoughts, emotions, feelings, and actions—and shifting into the essence of who we are— spacious awake awareness—and being present there and accessing the love, wisdom, care, and grounding that allows us to go forward in life no matter what.

Inner trust, trusts the core goodness of others and accepts that transactional trust will be broken from time to time. Whatever happens in the future, right now, we accept unconditional trust in our goodness and in the ground of being that is more than us and holds us all.

I hope you enjoy the show, and as always, I am grateful to you, my audience, and I am also grateful for the people behind the scenes who make this podcast possible. 

All of you who are members of the podcast;

Allie Allen for logo and podcast cover design; 

Gorgias Romero for original music, audio engineering and production;

Bill Rafferty for technical web support; and 

Margaret Haas for announcing the show.

Be well. Be mindful.

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