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Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listenin...

TARA BRACH
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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 to the realization of the flow of changing experience and the background awareness that is the source of our Being.

 

Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

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