Meditation: Suffering and Compassion (2020-10-28)

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Meditation: Suffering and Compassion (2020-10-28) - This brief meditation is a version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice: With the support of the breath we allow ourselves to open to the realness of suffering, and then offer it into a boundless heartspace…a shared and compassionate awareness.

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:05.8	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:30.0	Close your eyes.
0:45.8	And to gently do that scanning of the body and sense if there's anywhere where there's
0:50.3	unnecessary tension or tightness that you can take a nice in breath and then with your
0:56.3	breath just let go, some such a gift to ourselves to let go where we can.
1:04.9	Softening the shoulders and the hands.
1:11.4	Softening the belly, relaxing the heart.
1:21.4	And this practice is in the Tibetan traditions, tongue-lens, a very simple way of connecting
1:28.3	with where there's vulnerability, herds and sorrows and offering it into a bigger, more
1:36.2	spacious, loving presence.
1:40.7	We begin with ourselves, invite you to scan and sense if there's any place in you right
1:48.2	now that wants that healing attention, place that feels reactive, vulnerable, unsafe,
1:56.5	hurting, perhaps feels numb and cut off.
2:10.3	And I find it can help when you're bringing compassion practice inwards, put your hand
2:16.4	on your heart or wherever you feel emotion right now.
2:21.9	You're already right from the start offering a gesture of kindness.
2:26.6	And feel your breath.
2:30.5	And without any strain you might lengthen it a bit so you're really letting in with the
2:35.9	in breath and with the out breath letting go some.
2:46.7	You might sense as you breathe in you're letting in and letting yourself honestly contact
2:52.0	what's here.
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