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Tara Brach

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (a favorite from the archives) - We begin with a listening attention, relaxing open, letting sounds wash through. Scanning through and feeling the aliveness of the body, listening to the breath. Not pushing away anything - a very open and relaxed, receptive attention. Sensing what's happening in this present moment. Closing by sensing all in the foreground and in the background - that alert inner stillness, that light of awareness, that which is our deepest, formless nature.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:07.7

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0:30.0

With listening attention, just notice the sounds that are here.

0:58.0

Using open and letting sounds wash through you.

1:10.0

The close-in sounds, perhaps in the room, including the sounds of my voice, noticing the

1:21.1

space between sounds, sensing the space in the room, listening into that space, and

1:41.2

then the more distant sounds.

1:53.2

Notice saying that sounds aren't known by bringing the attention to them.

2:01.2

They're received. They're known spontaneously.

2:09.2

There's nothing to do.

2:25.2

The same receptivity of listening, you can listen to and feel the aliveness of the body.

2:41.2

Just as with the appearing and disappearing of sounds, just since the arising of sensation,

2:48.2

just play of tingling and vibrating, heat or cool, dance or loose, lighter heavy.

3:16.2

Knowing this play of sensations move through you.

3:36.2

The place of real tightness or tension, sense what happens when you soften around it.

3:46.2

Just let it float.

3:52.2

It happens when you feel the shoulders and the inside and let it float.

3:58.2

The tangles might be there.

4:13.2

You soften around the hands and just feel the life in the hands floating in awareness.

4:30.2

Loosening and softening in the belly, softening around the life that's there and letting it move and float just as it is.

4:57.2

Knowing the awareness to scan down through the legs, just receiving the life that's there.

5:23.2

It's just if you're listening to your life, letting it happen, letting it be just as it is.

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