Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind attention if we encounter physical or emotional pain. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit Tarabrock.com. The I'm Oh Oh |
| 0:24.6 | Oh |
| 0:27.6 | Oh We open our sitting with a very simple reflection on intention. |
| 0:46.3 | You might ask your own heart, you know, what is my deepest longing? |
| 0:53.3 | What's my real intention for practicing, |
| 0:56.1 | for meditation, for being here? |
| 1:10.6 | Listening inwardly to what feels most sincere in you right now. |
| 1:15.9 | Sincerity is a sign that you're more at home and your intention. |
| 1:22.8 | What matters? Awakening often starts with being awake and present in our bodies. |
| 1:40.3 | We'll scan down the body with awareness, mindfully waking up as we go. |
| 1:47.0 | You might begin with the area of the brow, just softening the eyes, |
| 1:54.0 | perhaps imagining a smile spreading through the eyes. |
| 2:03.4 | Let the brow be smooth. |
| 2:09.4 | You might sense that same smile, a slight smile at the mouth. |
| 2:14.5 | Let the inside of the mouth smile. |
| 2:21.5 | Relaxing the tongue right down to the root of the tongue, letting the tongue just spread |
| 2:27.3 | through the lower jaw. |
| 2:33.3 | Feel the inside of the mouth awake, the gums, teeth, tongue. |
| 2:39.0 | Is there aware of sensation, space inside the mouth? |
| 2:45.0 | Allowing the shoulders to relax back and down some. |
| 2:56.2 | And since the awareness filling the shoulders, you might imagine a kind of dissolving |
| 3:04.4 | from ice to water, and melting inside the shoulders. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tara Brach, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Tara Brach and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

