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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa031.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical, ml_categories_json AS ml_categories_json, ml_types_json AS ml_types_json, ml_intent_types_json AS ml_intent_types_json, meta_language AS meta_language, attrs_author AS attrs_author, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_publish_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(attrs_original_publish_time), 0) AS attrs_original_publish_time, ifNull(attrs_is_republished, 0) AS attrs_is_republished, ifNull(attrs_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_nr_words, ifNull(attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, 0) AS attrs_boilerpipe_nr_words, ifNull(body_ext_links_number, 0) AS body_ext_links_number, ifNull(body_int_links_number, 0) AS body_int_links_number, ifNull(meta_nofollow, 0) AS meta_nofollow, ifNull(meta_noarchive, 0) AS meta_noarchive, ifNull(props_was_rendered, 0) AS props_was_rendered, ifNull(src_redirect, \'\') AS src_redirect, ifNull(download_time_msec, 0) AS download_time_msec, ifNull(download_ttfb_msec, 0) AS download_ttfb_msec, ifNull(download_size, 0) AS download_size FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.tarabrach.com/guided-meditations/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditations\/","crawl_time":1776332714,"first_indexed_time":1450307188,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,tarabrach!www,\/guided-meditations\/ s443","src_root_hash":"2693033752234055431","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Guided Meditations - Tara Brach","meta_descriptions":["Guided meditations are offered freely by Tara Brach, Ph.D, psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Browse the entire library, or select a category below:\nMeditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)\nApr 15, 2026\nIf we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the...\nread more\nMeditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)\nApr 8, 2026\nLove is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole...\nread more\nMeditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)\nApr 1, 2026\nIn this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful...\nread more\nDonations\nPlease consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely.\nMeditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)\nMar 25, 2026\nStarting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,...\nread more\nMeditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)\nMar 18, 2026\nListening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us...\nread more\nMeditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)\nMar 11, 2026\nThis guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness...\nread more\nNew to Meditation?\nGet resources to help start your meditation practice.\nReady to Nourish Your Practice?\nCheck out Tara's \"8 Essentials\" Tipsheet\nMeditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)\nMar 4, 2026\nThis meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body.  We then open to...\nread more\nMeditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)\nFeb 25, 2026\nWe spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken...\nread more\nMeditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)\nFeb 18, 2026\nThis meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home....\nread more\nMeditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)\nFeb 12, 2026\nIn this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience...\nread more\nMeditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)\nFeb 4, 2026\nThis meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...\nread more\nMeditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)\nJan 28, 2026\nThis meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...\nread more\nMeditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)\nJan 21, 2026\nThis meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...\nread more\nMeditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)\nJan 15, 2026\nWe cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...\nread more\nMeditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)\nJan 7, 2026\nIn this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we...\nread more\nMeditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)\nDec 17, 2025\nThis practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...\nread more\nMeditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)\nDec 10, 2025\n  The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that...\nread more\nMeditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)\nDec 3, 2025\nIn this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through...\nread more\nMeditation: Inner Space –  Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)\nNov 26, 2025\nThis meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which...\nread more\nMeditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)\nNov 19, 2025\nCollecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same...\nread more","attrs_markdown":"Manage Consent\n\nThis site uses cookies to enhance your experience. 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[Articles & Interviews](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/articles-interviews\/)\n  - [Recommended Reading](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/reading\/)\n  - [Audio Dharma Resources](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/resources\/#Meditation3)\n- [Courses](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/online-courses)\n- [Meditations](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditations\/)\n- [Donate](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/donation\/)\n- [LOGIN](https:\/\/courses.tarabrach.com\/users\/sign_in)\n\n# Guided Meditations\n### Browse the entire library, or select a category below:\n[Basic Meditations](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditation-basic-meditations\/) \\| [Heart Meditations](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditations-meditations-that-free-the-heart\/) \\| [Open Awareness Meditations](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/open-awareness-meditations\/) \\| [Special Meditations\/Reflections](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/reflections\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meditation-Widening-Rings-of-Being-2026-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\nApr 15, 2026\n\nIf we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meditation-Embodying-Loving-Awareness-1939-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\nApr 8, 2026\n\nLove is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-Listening-to-our-Heart-2251-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\nApr 1, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\n\n### Donations\nPlease consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely.\n\n[Donate](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/donate)\n\n[![Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-A-Witnessing-Kind-Presence-2021-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\nMar 25, 2026\n\nStarting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-The-Pathway-of-Deep-Listening-2116-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\nMar 18, 2026\n\nListening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Meditation-Embodied-Awareness-18-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\nMar 11, 2026\n\nThis guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n### New to Meditation?\n![FAQ for Meditation](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FAQ-Cover-500X.jpg)\n\nGet resources to help start your meditation practice.\n\n[View](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/new-to-meditation\/)\n\n### Ready to Nourish Your Practice?\n![Meditation with Tara Brach](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara8Essential.jpg)\n\nCheck out Tara's \"8 Essentials\" Tipsheet\n\nView\n\n[![Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-Inhabiting-Awake-Awareness-2149-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\nMar 4, 2026\n\nThis meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meditation-Know-That-Youre-Here--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\nFeb 25, 2026\n\nWe spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meditation-Vipassana-%E2%80%93-Opening-Our-Hearts-to-Life-as-It-Is-20-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\nFeb 18, 2026\n\nThis meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home....\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-design-24.png)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\n\n## [Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\nFeb 12, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Relaxed-and-Alert-2042-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\nFeb 4, 2026\n\nThis meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Befriending-Your-Inner-Life--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\nJan 28, 2026\n\nThis meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Receiving-Life-in-Open-Awake-Awareness-2033-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\nJan 21, 2026\n\nThis meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Awakening-Our-Full-Aliveness--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\nJan 15, 2026\n\nWe cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Energy-and-Source-1935-min-1080x675.png)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\nJan 7, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-Meeting-Life-with-a-Kind-Presence-2128-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\nDec 17, 2025\n\nThis practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-The-Center-of-Now-2226-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\nDec 10, 2025\n\nThe portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-on-Intention-Coming-Home-to-What-Truly-Matters-2238-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\nDec 3, 2025\n\nIn this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meditation-Inner-Space-Gateway-to-Open-Awareness-2008-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\nNov 26, 2025\n\nThis meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meditation-Collecting-Unifying-and-Opening-the-Mind-2156-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2\/)\nNov 19, 2025\n\nCollecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2\/)\n\n[SEE MORE GUIDED MEDITATIONS](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditations-archive\/)\n\n## Popular Topics\n- [Anger\/Conflict](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/anger\/)\n- [Anti-Racism](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/racism\/)\n- [Awareness](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/awareness\/)\n- [Beliefs\/Thoughts](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/beliefs\/)\n- [Caregiver Resources](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/caregivers\/)\n- [Compassion](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/compassion-others-self\/)\n- [Desires\/Addictions](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/desire\/)\n- [Embodied Presence](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/embodiment\/)\n- [Engaged Spirituality](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/engaged-spirituality\/)\n- [Fear\/Trauma](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/fear\/)\n- [Forgiveness](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/forgiveness\/)\n- [Gratitude\/Generosity](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/gratitude\/)\n- [Grief\/Loss](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/grief\/)\n- [Happiness\/Joy](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/happiness\/)\n- [Intention\/Prayer](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/intention\/)\n- [Listening\/Relationships](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/listening\/)\n- [Pain](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/pain\/)\n- [Pandemic Care](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/pandemic\/)\n- [Question\/Response](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/question-response\/)\n- [RAIN Resources](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/rain\/)\n- [Sleep Wisdom](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/sleep\/)\n- [Stress](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/stress\/)\n\n- [Anger\/Conflict](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/anger\/)\n- [Anti-Racism](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/racism\/)\n- [Awareness](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/awareness\/)\n- [Beliefs\/Thoughts](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/beliefs\/)\n- [Caregiver Resources](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/caregivers\/)\n- [Compassion](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/compassion-others-self\/)\n- [Desires\/Addictions](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/desire\/)\n- [Embodied Presence](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/embodiment\/)\n- [Engaged Spirituality](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/engaged-spirituality\/)\n- [Fear\/Trauma](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/fear\/)\n- [Forgiveness](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/forgiveness\/)\n- [Gratitude\/Generosity](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/gratitude\/)\n- [Grief\/Loss](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/grief\/)\n- [Happiness\/Joy](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/happiness\/)\n- [Intention\/Prayer](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/intention\/)\n- [Listening\/Relationships](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/listening\/)\n- [Pain](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/pain\/)\n- [Pandemic Care](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/pandemic\/)\n- [Question\/Response](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/question-response\/)\n- [RAIN Resources](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/rain\/)\n- [Sleep Wisdom](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/sleep\/)\n- [Stress](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/stress\/)\n\n## Follow Tara\n- [Follow](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tarabrach \"Follow on Facebook\")\n- [Follow](http:\/\/instagram.com\/tarabrach \"Follow on Instagram\")\n- [Follow](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/tarabrach \"Follow on Youtube\")\n- [Follow](https:\/\/vimeo.com\/tarabrach \"Follow on Vimeo\")\n- [Follow](http:\/\/tarabrach.libsyn.com\/rss \"Follow on RSS\")\n## Join Tara's Email List\n\n© 2026 Tara Brach, PhD \\| [Privacy Policy](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/privacy-policy\/) \\| [Contact](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/contact\/)\n\nManage consent\n\nNotifications\n\n![](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tr?id=471790753566264&ev=PageView&noscript=1)","attrs_readable_markdown":"Browse the entire library, or select a category below:\n\n[![Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meditation-Widening-Rings-of-Being-2026-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\nApr 15, 2026\n\nIf we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meditation-Embodying-Loving-Awareness-1939-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\nApr 8, 2026\n\nLove is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-Listening-to-our-Heart-2251-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\nApr 1, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2\/)\n\n### Donations\nPlease consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely.\n\n[![Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-A-Witnessing-Kind-Presence-2021-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\nMar 25, 2026\n\nStarting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-The-Pathway-of-Deep-Listening-2116-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\nMar 18, 2026\n\nListening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Meditation-Embodied-Awareness-18-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\nMar 11, 2026\n\nThis guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2\/)\n\nNew to Meditation?\n\n![FAQ for Meditation](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/FAQ-Cover-500X.jpg)\n\nGet resources to help start your meditation practice.\n\nReady to Nourish Your Practice?\n\n![Meditation with Tara Brach](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tara8Essential.jpg)\n\nCheck out Tara's \"8 Essentials\" Tipsheet\n\n[![Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meditation-Inhabiting-Awake-Awareness-2149-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\nMar 4, 2026\n\nThis meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meditation-Know-That-Youre-Here--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\nFeb 25, 2026\n\nWe spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Meditation-Vipassana-%E2%80%93-Opening-Our-Hearts-to-Life-as-It-Is-20-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\nFeb 18, 2026\n\nThis meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home....\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Untitled-design-24.png)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\n\n## [Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\nFeb 12, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Relaxed-and-Alert-2042-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\nFeb 4, 2026\n\nThis meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Befriending-Your-Inner-Life--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\nJan 28, 2026\n\nThis meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Receiving-Life-in-Open-Awake-Awareness-2033-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\nJan 21, 2026\n\nThis meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Awakening-Our-Full-Aliveness--1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\nJan 15, 2026\n\nWe cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Meditation-Energy-and-Source-1935-min-1080x675.png)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\nJan 7, 2026\n\nIn this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-Meeting-Life-with-a-Kind-Presence-2128-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\nDec 17, 2025\n\nThis practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-The-Center-of-Now-2226-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\nDec 10, 2025\n\nThe portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Meditation-on-Intention-Coming-Home-to-What-Truly-Matters-2238-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\nDec 3, 2025\n\nIn this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-on-intention-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meditation-Inner-Space-Gateway-to-Open-Awareness-2008-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\nNov 26, 2025\n\nThis meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which...\n\n[read more](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2\/)\n\n[![Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Meditation-Collecting-Unifying-and-Opening-the-Mind-2156-min-1080x675.jpg)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2\/)\n\n## [Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2\/)\nNov 19, 2025\n\nCollecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. 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Browse the entire library, or select a category below: Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.) Apr 15, 2026 If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the... read more Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.) Apr 8, 2026 Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole... read more Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min) Apr 1, 2026 In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful... read more Donations Please consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely. Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min) Mar 25, 2026 Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,... read more Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min) Mar 18, 2026 Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us... read more Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.) Mar 11, 2026 This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness... read more New to Meditation? Get resources to help start your meditation practice. Ready to Nourish Your Practice? Check out Tara's "8 Essentials" Tipsheet Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49) Mar 4, 2026 This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to... read more Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min) Feb 25, 2026 We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken... read more Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.) Feb 18, 2026 This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home.... read more Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.) Feb 12, 2026 In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience... read more Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.) Feb 4, 2026 This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness... read more Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.) Jan 28, 2026 This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and... read more Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.) Jan 21, 2026 This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the... read more Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.) Jan 15, 2026 We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to... read more Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min) Jan 7, 2026 In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we... read more Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.) Dec 17, 2025 This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises... read more Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min) Dec 10, 2025 The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that... read more Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.) Dec 3, 2025 In this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through... read more Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08) Nov 26, 2025 This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which... read more Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.) Nov 19, 2025 Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same... read more

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This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2/) [![Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Meditation-Embodying-Loving-Awareness-1939-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) ## [Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) Apr 8, 2026 Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) [![Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-Listening-to-our-Heart-2251-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) ## [Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) Apr 1, 2026 In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) ### Donations Please consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely. [Donate](https://www.tarabrach.com/donate) [![Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-A-Witnessing-Kind-Presence-2021-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) ## [Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) Mar 25, 2026 Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) [![Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-The-Pathway-of-Deep-Listening-2116-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) ## [Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) Mar 18, 2026 Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) [![Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Meditation-Embodied-Awareness-18-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) ## [Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) Mar 11, 2026 This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) ### New to Meditation? ![FAQ for Meditation](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ-Cover-500X.jpg) Get resources to help start your meditation practice. [View](https://www.tarabrach.com/new-to-meditation/) ### Ready to Nourish Your Practice? ![Meditation with Tara Brach](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Tara8Essential.jpg) Check out Tara's "8 Essentials" Tipsheet View [![Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-Inhabiting-Awake-Awareness-2149-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2/) ## [Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2/) Mar 4, 2026 This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2/) [![Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Meditation-Know-That-Youre-Here--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) ## [Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) Feb 25, 2026 We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) [![Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Meditation-Vipassana-%E2%80%93-Opening-Our-Hearts-to-Life-as-It-Is-20-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) ## [Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) Feb 18, 2026 This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home.... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) [![Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Untitled-design-24.png)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) ## [Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) Feb 12, 2026 In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) [![Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Relaxed-and-Alert-2042-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) ## [Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) Feb 4, 2026 This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) [![Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Befriending-Your-Inner-Life--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) ## [Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) Jan 28, 2026 This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) [![Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Receiving-Life-in-Open-Awake-Awareness-2033-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) ## [Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) Jan 21, 2026 This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) [![Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Awakening-Our-Full-Aliveness--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) ## [Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) Jan 15, 2026 We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) [![Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Energy-and-Source-1935-min-1080x675.png)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2/) ## [Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2/) Jan 7, 2026 In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we... 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[read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2/) [![Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Meditation-The-Center-of-Now-2226-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2/) ## [Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2/) Dec 10, 2025 The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that... 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Browse the entire library, or select a category below: [![Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Meditation-Widening-Rings-of-Being-2026-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2/) ## [Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2/) Apr 15, 2026 If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2/) [![Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Meditation-Embodying-Loving-Awareness-1939-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) ## [Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) Apr 8, 2026 Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-1942-min/) [![Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-Listening-to-our-Heart-2251-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) ## [Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:51 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) Apr 1, 2026 In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2/) ### Donations Please consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely. [![Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-A-Witnessing-Kind-Presence-2021-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) ## [Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) Mar 25, 2026 Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises,... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2/) [![Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Meditation-The-Pathway-of-Deep-Listening-2116-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) ## [Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) Mar 18, 2026 Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-pathway-of-deep-listening-2/) [![Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Meditation-Embodied-Awareness-18-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) ## [Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) Mar 11, 2026 This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-embodied-awareness-2-2/) New to Meditation? ![FAQ for Meditation](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FAQ-Cover-500X.jpg) Get resources to help start your meditation practice. 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[read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-2-2/) [![Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Meditation-Know-That-Youre-Here--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) ## [Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:38 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) Feb 25, 2026 We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2/) [![Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Meditation-Vipassana-%E2%80%93-Opening-Our-Hearts-to-Life-as-It-Is-20-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) ## [Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) Feb 18, 2026 This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home.... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-vipassana-opening-hearts-2/) [![Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Untitled-design-24.png)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) ## [Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) Feb 12, 2026 In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-1827-min/) [![Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Relaxed-and-Alert-2042-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) ## [Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) Feb 4, 2026 This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2/) [![Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Befriending-Your-Inner-Life--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) ## [Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) Jan 28, 2026 This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2/) [![Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Receiving-Life-in-Open-Awake-Awareness-2033-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) ## [Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) Jan 21, 2026 This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2/) [![Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Awakening-Our-Full-Aliveness--1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) ## [Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) Jan 15, 2026 We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2/) [![Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Meditation-Energy-and-Source-1935-min-1080x675.png)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2/) ## [Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2/) Jan 7, 2026 In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-energy-and-source-2-2/) [![Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Meditation-Meeting-Life-with-a-Kind-Presence-2128-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2/) ## [Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2/) Dec 17, 2025 This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2/) [![Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Meditation-The-Center-of-Now-2226-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2/) ## [Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2/) Dec 10, 2025 The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-center-of-now-2-2/) [![Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Meditation-on-Intention-Coming-Home-to-What-Truly-Matters-2238-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-on-intention-2/) ## [Meditation on Intention: Coming Home to What Truly Matters (22:38 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-on-intention-2/) Dec 3, 2025 In this guided meditation, we explore the power of intention—the quiet inner compass that reconnects us with our sincerity, our longing, and the truth of our own hearts. Through... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-on-intention-2/) [![Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Meditation-Inner-Space-Gateway-to-Open-Awareness-2008-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2/) ## [Meditation: Inner Space – Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2/) Nov 26, 2025 This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-inner-space-gateway-to-open-awareness-2/) [![Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Meditation-Collecting-Unifying-and-Opening-the-Mind-2156-min-1080x675.jpg)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2/) ## [Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2/) Nov 19, 2025 Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same... [read more](https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind-2/)

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