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Sep 2022
17m 34s

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts

TARA BRACH
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Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.

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