2014-09-24 Meditation - Befriending and Opening to Life
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 26 September 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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2014-09-24 Meditation - Befriending and Opening to Life
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist, and author. |
| 0:13.3 | You might close your eyes and then from the inside out make those subtle shifts and sitting |
| 0:19.9 | so that your posture is upright, so you're sitting tall, sitting in a balanced way, and |
| 0:35.0 | since possibility of relaxing in this uprightness, just see what will naturally let go and soften |
| 0:46.0 | and be more at ease. As you come into stillness you might let the attention move to the heart |
| 0:57.2 | area. Just feel your breath at your heart. Very simple inquiry. What is it that brings you |
| 1:12.7 | here tonight? Really? What is your intention? And as you check for the quality of sincerity, |
| 1:33.6 | because the more you feel sincere about your intention, the more you know you're really |
| 1:40.3 | contacting your heart. What really matters? We open together as community with a very simple |
| 2:03.9 | chant. The mantra Om is the mantra of connectedness. You might want to bring the palms together |
| 2:10.1 | to deep in that sense of heart connection. We'll chant three times. Please inhale deeply. |
| 3:10.1 | The two wings of a full attention are the wing of mindfulness of recognizing what's happening |
| 3:36.8 | right here in this moment. What is happening? And the wing of compassion or love that creates |
| 3:46.7 | the tender space, a friendly way of relating to what's happening. It can be helpful in beginning |
| 3:59.7 | a meditation to create the inner experience of friendliness with the image of a smile. You might |
| 4:09.2 | imagine a smile spreading through space, filling the whole of the sky, the curve, the receptivity, |
| 4:19.1 | the openness. Let your mind merge with that sky so that the whole mind is filled with the |
| 4:30.7 | luminosity and openness of a smile. Feel that you could smile into your eyes so that it spreads |
| 4:43.6 | right through the eyes, letting the corners of the eyes be lifted up a bit. |
| 4:55.0 | Slight smile at the mouth. You might even sense the inside of the mouth smiling. |
| 5:02.1 | And smile into the heart. Imagine so that you're visualizing and feeling that curve of a smile |
| 5:16.8 | spreading through the heart in the chest area, hoping to create the space for whatever's there to be there. |
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