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Mar 2023
19m 55s

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening

TARA BRACH
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Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the poem “lost” by David Wagoner.

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