Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat)

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience. NOTE: Given on the 4th morning of the 2018 IMCW New Year’s Retreat. It’s especially enjoyed when the mind is a bit quieter.

You might reflect on these words from the Tibetan tradition:
"Utterly awake, senses wide open.
Utterly open, non-fixating awareness."

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:08.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:38.0	As part of arriving, you might sense your heart's intention towards presence.
1:08.2	Lowing the awareness to really fill the body,
1:13.3	becoming aware of places that might be tight or tense, and see if there's some natural letting go.
1:20.8	That's possible.
1:39.4	You might bring the half-smile of the Buddha to your lips, let the eyes be soft,
1:56.8	and perhaps smiling into the heart.
2:05.7	There's that receptivity and openness to the life that's here.
2:24.3	You may allow the attention to the brought to sounds.
2:48.9	Listening, not just with your ears, but with your whole awareness.
2:58.5	A global kind of listening.
3:18.8	Noticing with listening, there's nothing to do.
3:28.8	Sounds are known spontaneously by awareness.
3:59.2	Listening to the close-in sounds.
4:11.6	The soft background sounds.
4:20.0	Listening to the most distant sounds you can detect.
4:50.2	And sensing the vastness of awareness that includes sound.
5:06.6	And it's with the same quality of receptivity of listening to sound.
5:24.8	That you can listen to and feel the changing sensations in the body.
5:43.1	Completely receptive.
5:55.5	Sensing that alert inner stillness that receives sensation and aliveness.
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