Tara Brach Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)
9 snips
Mar 18, 2026 A guided practice in receptive, whole-body listening to sounds, sensations, and the spaces between. Short prompts move attention through eyes, mouth, hands, heart, belly and feet. Breath is used to stabilize open presence. The narration points out trance-like narrowing and invites widening into a silent, alert background that listens.
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
Listening As The Template For Awareness
- Listening functions as a direct template for awareness: open, receptive, and awake like hearing sounds without doing anything.
- Tara Brach guides sensing the eyes, mouth, shoulders, and hands to show how attention can simply receive bodily life.
Bring Receptive Attention To Body Regions
- Bring receptive attention to specific body areas (eyes, mouth, shoulders, hands, chest, belly, pelvis, feet) to feel the life present there.
- Tara instructs relaxing shoulders and softening hands as concrete steps to receive sensation without controlling it.
Widen To A Field Of Sensation And Sound
- Widen your attention to include the whole field: sensations, sounds, feelings, letting them appear and dissolve in open presence.
- Use breath sensations as an anchor if attention drifts, noting inflow and outflow without controlling it.