Meditation: Tonglen - Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (2020-07-25)

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Meditation: Tonglen - Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (2020-07-25) - This short version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice guides us in courageously opening to the suffering within us and all beings, and allowing that suffering to be held in the formless heartspace that is our true belonging (recorded during Tara's livestreamed Satsang QA session).

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0:00.0	The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.
0:06.3	To access more of my meditations or join my email list, please visit TaraBrock.com.
0:28.9	If you'd like to close your eyes and just take a moment to find yourself sitting in a way that's awake, relaxed, take a moment to settle.
0:43.9	And as you do, become aware of the movement of your breath.
0:56.9	Let your attention ride the breath.
1:00.9	And imagine in sense with the in breath that you're letting in this world.
1:05.9	You're letting yourself be touched by this world.
1:09.9	You're opening to receive.
1:12.9	You're saying yes to this world.
1:17.9	And in a very particular way, you're saying yes and opening to touch what we often don't want to feel.
1:24.9	The pain that's here.
1:27.9	You might start by even feeling as you breathe in that you're touching into your own pain.
1:35.9	How your heart is experiencing the world, because it really helps the circles of compassion.
1:41.9	And we start right with the inner circle where we feel fear or confusion.
1:47.9	And just breathe in and it's like you're saying yes to it.
1:50.9	It's like a continuation of saying this belongs.
1:54.9	And if it helps put your hand on your heart to keep a steady attention, just breathing in, saying yes, touching what's here.
2:06.9	And with the out breath, imagine in sense that you're letting it be held by the vast loving presence in this universe.
2:17.9	You're letting it be held by all the ancestors that have created and brought forth what's right here.
2:30.9	You're letting it be held by all the away carts in this world, by all the goodness in this world.
2:41.9	You're letting it be held by this vast earth and by this boundless sky.
2:49.9	So that you can breathe in and touch a pain that's right here.
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