Tara Brach - Meditation: Entering the Wilderness (2017-07-05) (6 min)

Episode Date: July 7, 2017

Meditation: Entering the Wilderness (2017-07-05) - We open to our full naturalness as we awaken the senses. This brief meditation guides us to open all the sense gates, and in that openness, experience the pure aliveness and awareness that is our essence. NOTE: listen to the full talk: Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence Your support enables us to continue to offer these talks freely. If you value them, I hope you will consider offering a donation at this time at www.tarabrach.com/donation/. With gratitude and love, Tara

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock. As you become still, let your attention and your awareness fill your body. You might begin by noticing if there's any part of your body that wants to let go a little, to loosen, to soften. You might take a few full breaths to collect the attention. And then awaken the senses. Listen. Listen to the space that's around you, the soft sounds,

listening in a global way, not just with your ears but with your whole awareness. Maybe you can detect what's called the sound of silence, that background, hum, sensing the space of awareness that perceives the sound of silence, sensing the stillness that experiences this vibration and aliveness in the body right now. Can you sense that everything is changing,

that nothing's holding still? Can you open entirely to this changing flow of aliveness? Just to say yes to it, to let go into the river of the senses. Is there anything that's solid? Is there any center to experience? Any boundary? Is there any self in this world of sensation?

You don't have to think about it, just keep arriving more and more into this aliveness that's right here. It's like this. You might explore if it's possible just to let go a little more into the changing flow. Moment to moment. The poet Dana Falls writes, Settle in the here and now. Reach down into the center where the world is not spinning and drink

this holy peace, feel relief flood into every cell. Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already. Nothing to receive but what flows effortlessly from the mystery into form. Nothing to run from or run toward. Just this breath. Awareness knowing itself as embodiment. Just this breath, awareness waking up to truth.