Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves

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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - 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 (from 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.
0:06.0	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:36.0	We begin together with a meditation.
0:47.0	Take some moments to make sure you're sitting in a way that's really comfortable, that you're at ease.
0:54.0	Also alert, awake.
1:00.0	And when you find the posture that serves you, invite yourself to settle in to arrive.
1:09.0	Perhaps letting go of obvious areas of tension in your body.
1:17.0	And by taking a few long deep breaths.
1:28.0	As part of arriving, you might sense your heart's intention towards presence.
1:51.0	Lowing the awareness to really fill the body, becoming aware of places that might be tight or tense.
2:01.0	And see if there's some natural letting go that's possible.
2:30.0	You might bring the half-smile of the Buddha to your lips.
2:38.0	Let the eyes be soft.
2:47.0	And perhaps smiling into the heart. So there's that receptivity and openness to the life that's here.
3:18.0	And you may allow the attention to be brought to sounds.
3:35.0	Listening not just with your ears, but with your whole awareness.
3:51.0	A global kind of listening.
4:09.0	Noticing with listening, there's nothing to do.
4:21.0	By awareness.
4:45.0	Listening to the close-in sounds.
4:55.0	The soft background sounds.
5:08.0	Listening to the most distant sounds you can detect.
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