Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to deepen the experience of receptivity and openness. The meditation progresses to include all experience - sounds, sensations, thoughts, feelings - in the vast, transparent, timeless space of awareness.
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| 0:00.0 | The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. |
| 0:04.1 | To access more of my meditations or join my email list, |
| 0:07.9 | please visit tarabrock.com. As you come into stillness, let your attention come to the heart area. |
| 0:47.3 | You might feel your breath and feel it at the heart. |
| 1:05.0 | We take these moments to reflect on our intention for being here. |
| 1:12.6 | So you might ask yourself what really brings you to practice. |
| 1:22.6 | What is it that your heart longs for? What matters to you? You might sense that there's a prayer or a yearning in some way for more presence, more open-heartedness, |
| 1:36.3 | more connection with the sacred, more wisdom, peace, just to feel what is sincerely there, what matters. You might gently scan through your body and sense if there's any part of your body that wants to let go a little right now. |
| 2:41.0 | Where is it possible to soften or relax a bit? Feel your whole body sitting here breathing and extending the breath now |
| 2:44.0 | so that the in-breath is longer, deeper, fuller, breathing in. |
| 2:50.0 | And a slow out breath, slow enough so you can feel the sensations of letting go. And again, a nice, deep in-breadth. |
| 3:10.3 | And a slow-out breath. |
| 3:16.3 | Letting go. |
| 3:19.3 | Letting go. |
| 3:21.3 | Letting go. |
| 3:23.3 | And one more in breath. |
| 3:27.0 | Nice, full, deep inhale. |
| 3:34.0 | And a slow release, softening down the length of your body. Letting the breath |
| 3:52.6 | in its natural rhythm, |
| 3:54.6 | sensing with the inflow that you can open and relax more. |
| 4:06.3 | And with the outflow or releasing, relaxing outward. |
| 4:36.6 | Now shifting your awareness away from the body and begin to listen to the play of sounds around you. |
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