Name: Meditation: Listening to Our Heart by Tara Brach
Duration: 20 min 8 s
Description: True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.

In order to be giving, we need to be nourished. This week, Andres Gonzalez shares a practice about learning to check in with yourself and to do so with love. Andres is cofounder of the Holistic Life Foundation. For twenty years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations, including Baltimore City Public School, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools, and other venues throughout the nation. He is also one of this year's teachers in our Mindful30 meditation challenge. Andres will be guiding practices based on easing stress with intentional breathing. If you want to know more about Mindful30, we’ll link to it in the show notes for this episode. Show Notes: Find more from Andres Gonzalez here:    And more from Mindful here:    Let us know what you thought of this episode of 12 Minute Meditation by leaving a review or by emailing . &nbsp;

12 Minute Meditation: Offer Loving-Kindness to Yourself with Andres Gonzalez

This dharma talk centers around teachings from The Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta which is a story about the last year of the Buddha's life. 

This text has two main themes: 

1. The Buddha wanted to leave his teachings as guidance for his followers to empower them.
2. The Buddha wanted to encourage his followers to foster wise relationships to one another in the spiritual community and to the world.


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This dharma talk was originally livestreamed by Spirit Rock on 8/22/22.

The Buddha's Last Teachings Dharma Talk—Jack Kornfield

Jack shares a guided meditation focused around relaxing into the ocean of breath we find ourselves in when we open into the present moment.

“Notice how the body breathes itself in this ocean of air, feel it—the coolness of the nostrils, or the swirling-tingling in the back of the throat, or the rise and fall of the chest or belly.” – Jack Kornfield

“You become a connoisseur of breathing for this moment, attentive to this remarkable breathing in and out of the atmosphere, keeping you alive, exchanging with all.” – Jack Kornfield

This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock for the Monday Night Dharma Talk on July 24, 2023

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Ocean of Air Meditation – Jack Kornfield

This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source. The meditation closes with “Walk Slowly”, from the poetry of Danna Faulds.

Tara Brach

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery

True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.

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Meditation: Listening to Our Heart

A guided meditation with nature sounds which helps you to let go of anxiety and restlessness. Stephan Pende leads you into sleep through gentle instructions of letting be and letting go.

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Uncertain times are “the perfect place to deepen the practice of awakening,” says Spirit Rock founder Jack Kornfield. In this interview with Michael Krasny on KQED's "Forum," Jack offers advice on finding freedom from worry, anxiety and want and shares what he’s learned as a longtime practitioner of Buddhism and mindfulness.

Jack Kornfield - Learning to Let Go of Anxiety

Love, friendliness and a spirit of generosity and non-harming for others begins with love, friendliness and a spirit of generosity and non-harming for one's self.  What follows is a 20 minute metta-for-self meditation led by Senior Teacher Diana Gould.

20 minute Lovingkindness (Metta) for Self Meditation led by Diana Gould

“O Nobly Born” the Buddhist texts begin, remember your Buddha Nature. Remember your innate capacity for dignity, understanding and vast compassion. These gifts were born into you. Discover how the beautiful qualities of Buddha Nature can become alive for you, in your heart and the way you live.

This series of inspiring talks discuss the awakening of the qualities of Buddha Nature, traditionally described as inner perfections. Through these teachings and practices, you are invited to bring alive and embody the virtues of the heart, lovingkindness and steadiness, compassion and wisdom. You are invited to awaken the best in yourself.

Given in 2017, these teachings are some of my favorites.

Energy to Awaken - Jack Kornfield

Courage & the Steady Heart - Jack Kornfield

2016-10/19  SR Fall Insight Meditation Retreat http://www.spiritrock.org/

The Bodhisattva & Power of Intention - Jack Kornfield

Meditation teacher, author, and clinical psychologist: Tara Brach has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is a teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha, True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart and Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. Her podcasts are downloaded over 2 million times a month.

Meditation: Listening to Our Heart

Tara Brach

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