Guided Meditation in Open Awareness by Tara Brach

“Inner Space: Gateway to Open Awareness” is a 19-minute audio guided meditation (adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D.) by psychotherapist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC, Tara Brach.

Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. The result is a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering. -- from the website

In the preface to this guided meditation in her book True Refuge, Tara writes,

As we move through life we need a flexible attention, one tha tis capable of a narrow focus on objects or experience, as well as an open focus that perceives the presence of space. Learning to attend to inner space cultivates the flexiblity: We become familiar with the formless, impersonal ground of all experience. Eve at times when the lens narrows, we a re less inclined to focus and react with grasping or resisting.

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