Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us to the realization of the flow of changing experience and the background awareness that is the source of our Being.
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:11.3 | Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing |
| 0:17.8 | to our world. |
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| 0:27.1 | where you can also join our email list. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, let's explore together |
| 0:34.7 | the many ways we can live |
| 0:36.7 | from the love and presence that's our deepest |
| 0:40.1 | essence. |
| 0:47.6 | Namaste. Letting your senses be wide awake, listening, where of the play of sounds that are close |
| 1:20.6 | in, the dis, the disappearing, the disappearing, the |
| 1:34.3 | disappearing, the spaces between sounds. listening not just with your ears but with your whole awareness. Listening to the more distant sounds. With listening, there's nothing to do. |
| 2:44.0 | Sounds are known spontaneously. |
| 2:57.6 | Sensing the space that all sounds are appearing in. Completely receptive, open. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The Listening is the most direct template for awareness itself. |
| 3:51.6 | It's this open wakefulness. With the same receptivity of listening to sound, now listening to sound, now listening to and feeling the sensations |
| 4:39.6 | arising, passing in that area. Not opposing or interfering, just purely receiving with interest. interest, listening to and feeling to and feeling the aliveness inside the mouth, |
| 5:15.0 | the play of sensation in the tongue, gums, teeth, lips. |
| 5:44.4 | And that relax the shoulders back and down and feeling the shoulders from the inside out, listening to, receiving the play of energy there. Still aware of the sounds around you. |
| 6:22.6 | Open and receptive. |
| 6:30.3 | You might soften the hands and then listen to and feel the sensations moving inside the hands. |
| 7:19.3 | Intimate, receptive presence. Let there be an openness to the chest. When feeling the heart from the inside out, in the same way a receptivity, a listening to |
| 7:27.3 | and feeling the life that's there. Just letting everything happen to you, letting life be just as it is. |
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