Meditation: Listening to Life (2014-11-12)

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Meditation: Listening to Life (2014-11-12) - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.

This meditation ends with a tribute to Thich Nhat Hanh’s life and a reading from his writings on death and life.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.4	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	As you close your eyes, just feel from the inside out the posture.
0:50.6	Take a moment to let the attention come to the heart.
0:56.0	And sense what the state of your heart is right now.
1:04.9	Just feeling and listening to your heart.
1:10.6	Whatever mood is here.
1:14.3	For that any judgment, just being aware, deepening the listening and sensing really what
1:28.0	your deepest intention is for this evening.
1:37.1	Take some moments with this so you can really sense a sincerity, a kind of innocence that
1:43.4	comes when you really connect with what matters to.
1:50.4	It's from the place of caring about awakening, about open-heartedness, about presence that
2:04.9	we chant together, the simple mantra, as a way of coming together as community.
2:13.5	And whether you've done this once or thousands of times, just let it be fresh in the moment,
2:20.5	feeling the sound current from the heart, letting yourself go into that sound current.
2:25.7	We'll chant three times.
2:27.6	And if you'd like to begin by bringing the palms together, this helps to tenderize and
2:33.8	open that quality of devotion and love in the heart, inhaling deeply to begin.
3:27.6	With a relaxed attention, just scanning through your body and noticing if there's areas
3:49.2	of particular tightness or tension, bringing the awareness to wherever you sense holding.
4:06.3	See if that presence invites a kind of untangling, loosening.
4:23.3	Might soften the eyes and let the brow be smooth.
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