WATER MODULE
PART III: SKILLS
LESSON 2: Real, But Not True Practices
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LESSON SUMMARY
Lesson 2: Real, But Not True Practices
In this lesson you'll experience creating a safe container with the Real Not True Practice. Here we’ll explore how to hold our stories as real, but not true. Sometimes the best way to deal with a story we are caught in, is to just allow it. There are several elements we can bring both as a listener and a storyteller that we will explore in this lesson.
LESSON CONTENT
Real But Not True
PRACTICE #1: Real But Not True Container Practice
Put the principles above into action with a partner.
- Choose Your Storyteller and Listener: Choose who will be listening and offering presence and who will be sharing their story.
- Maintain awareness: Make sure both the listener and storyteller unhook from the limited view just enough to be the awareness of the story.
- Hold Real, But Not True: Realize your story may be true to you and real to you, but it’s not true - it’s a concept and interpretation created by your thinking mind.
- Bring In the View of Emptiness: Bring in more emptiness and awareness so that we are not merged with the thinker and getting too caught in the story.
- Mirror Non-judgmental presence: Mirror and amplify open, nonjudgmental, unconditional presence as you bring an open-hearted compassionate ear.
- Hold that It’s unknown what is true: Hold that it’s just unknown what is true bringing openness and curiosity to the story, not just emptiness.
- Support creating an uninhibited stream: Hold an unconditional presence so that the storyteller gets the direct sensation that there's nothing that they can't say and nothing they should or shouldn’t do.
- Find the nuggets of truth: If we create an stream there is an opportunity, through our natural awareness and knowing to find what’s true inside of it.
- Submit your practice: Once you’ve done this practice above, submit it in the practice form below to earn credit towards your Water Module Apprentice Badge and answer the reflection question below.
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Real, But Not True Practice
Watch Rinpoche's short clip, read the Real But Not True Container Practice above, and find a partner for this practice so that you can each create this container around a story you've been holding on to that is creating suffering or pain for you. Then submit your practices below to earn points towards your Water Apprentice Badge.
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