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Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (2016-11-02)

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (2016-11-02) - Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindful presence. We then include whatever is predominant, recognizing and allowing the changing flow. The blessing of this practice is simple and beautiful: We are learning to be here for our life.

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

0:08.9

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0:30.0

I'm closing your eyes.

0:50.0

Letting the attention go inward.

0:54.5

You might feel the movement of the breath at the heart.

0:59.8

You just become aware of the area of the heart.

1:06.1

Now we start by bringing attention to the heart so that we can get in touch with our intention

1:14.3

for being here.

1:17.2

You might want to just ask yourself, what really brings me to meditation, to practice?

1:24.6

Or does it that most matters to me?

1:32.6

Sense with the kind of sincerity what your heart longs for might be that you're looking

1:42.4

for more peace and ease.

1:47.9

Or maybe you really want a more open-hearted quality in your life, more intimacy.

1:54.9

There may be a deeper realization of who you are, a kind of awakening.

2:05.9

The sense what matters.

2:13.9

The most direct gateway to presence is to be awake in the senses.

2:21.9

To listen.

2:27.9

And to bring that listening attention right into the body so that you're listening to the

2:32.9

life of the body.

2:37.9

Scanning through the body.

2:41.9

You might bring the attention to the area of the eyes and the brow.

2:46.9

Just soften the eyes.

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