Tara Brach - Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (2015-12-23) (6:11 min)

Episode Date: December 28, 2015

Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (2015-12-23) (6:11 min) - When we focus on what we appreciate in others, our very attention helps allow that person to shine (a practice meditation from the end of the "Secret Beauty - Solstice talk").

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist, and author. So really exploring, waking up to heart space, to seeing that secret beauty, learning to stay with what's difficult and finding that tender space of compassion and learning to see the goodness. We'll do a very short practice now on seeing the goodness, if you will, just come sitting in a way that allows you to deepen your attention. As you come into stillness, take a moment to let go of any tension you're aware of in your body. You might soften the shoulders, relax and soften the hands, loosen, soften in the belly.

Just take a nice full breath. Bringing to your attention someone who's easy to love could be a child or a pet, a friend or a parent, a spiritual figure, teacher, colleague, somebody who's easy just to feel, sense the goodness, be aware of what it is that brings up your sense of appreciation, the gleam in the person's eyes or the way they show love to you, the brightness, beauty, humor, aliveness. And just imagine yourself expressing your love and your appreciation. and that other person receiving that.

And as you feel that and sense that, sensing that person's secret beauty and your own secret beauty, that loving heart, that appreciative heart that's right inside you, sense that heart space widening to include others so that in the next few moments, whoever comes to mind, just sense you're glimpsing secret beauty, the light that shines through being's eyes, the warmth, the glow of the heart, the look of aliveness when someone's happy, their mischievousness,

their humor, that basic sentience and Thomas Merton, and it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depth of their hearts where neither sin nor knowledge could reach, the core of reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the divine. If only the they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more need for war, for hatred, for greed, for cruelty. I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other, closing by simply feeling the heart space that is attuned to that secret beauty and an expression of that secret beauty. May our lives be lived from that heart space. May all beings trust and realize

loving presence. May all beings touch great and natural peace. May all beings be happy. May all beings be free. Namaste.