Meditation: Bring RAIN to the Wanting Mind (2020-03-04)

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Meditation: Bring RAIN to the Wanting Mind - (2020-03-04) -

We begin the meditation by briefly scanning through the body and sensing awareness of being here. We scan our life and use the acronym RAIN to Recognize a feeling of wanting, Allow it to be there, and Investigate how we’re holding the experience in our body. As we trace back to our longing for belonging, we Nurture a feeling of belonging as warmth, openness and tenderness that’s already here.

This is the final meditation from the full talk given on March 3, 2020, Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home.

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0:00.0	The following reflection is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.4	To access more of my meditations or reflections, or to join my email list, please visit
0:10.9	TaraBrock.com.
0:12.9	Most of us have spent a lifetime fixating our desires on external objects.
0:36.3	But if we learn to really trace them back, we discover that they are the voice of loving
0:42.5	awareness calling us home.
0:44.6	I want to read you one of my favorite quotes from Srinar Sargadatta.
0:49.8	He says, all you need is already within you.
0:55.4	Only you must approach yourself with reverence and love.
1:01.0	Self-condemnation and self-destrust are grievous errors.
1:05.5	Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for
1:11.7	yourself.
1:13.5	All I plead with you is this, make love of yourself perfect.
1:19.7	Deny yourself nothing.
1:21.6	Give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them, you are beyond.
1:33.2	This is not about indulging ourselves.
1:37.6	This is about withdrawing our fixations on substitutes and really sensing what is it
1:45.9	we really long for?
1:48.6	What is it we really long for?
1:50.0	And discovering in that longing the love and the awareness that is already here.
1:57.3	So in that spirit, I'd like to invite you to do a brief meditation together bringing
2:02.0	rain to the wanting mind and like any applied meditation for us to bring mindfulness and
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