Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2016-12-31)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2016-12-31) ~ We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile to bring a relaxed receptivity to the body. We then engage with our future self (our Being when our heart is fully awake) and explore what it means to embody the fullness of that wisdom and love.
(given on the last afternoon of the 2016 IMCW 5-day New Year's silent retreat)
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:08.9 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com. |
| 0:30.0 | I thought I'd begin by saying that in my own experience, the deepest truths are often |
| 0:53.1 | the ones that we forget. |
| 0:56.0 | And one of them is that if we can't hold in regard the life within us ourselves with |
| 1:04.6 | love, it's very difficult to love life, others in this whole of the life. |
| 1:13.8 | And when we talk about loving the life within, loving ourselves, really it's that quality |
| 1:22.0 | of profound allowing and acceptance and tenderness. |
| 1:28.4 | But I'd read to you one of my favorite passages from a teacher that's had a big impact on |
| 1:35.6 | me, Serena Sargadatta. |
| 1:39.8 | He says that all you need is already within you. |
| 1:45.0 | Only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. |
| 1:51.1 | Love condemnation and self-destruct are grievous errors. |
| 1:56.0 | Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for |
| 2:02.9 | yourself. |
| 2:05.0 | All I plead with you is this. |
| 2:08.2 | Make love of yourself perfect. |
| 2:11.4 | All I plead with you is this. |
| 2:14.8 | Make love of yourself perfect. |
| 2:18.3 | And all yourself, nothing, give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do |
| 2:24.0 | not need them, you are beyond. |
| 2:28.3 | When he says, make love of yourself perfect, what is it that we're loving? |
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