SKY-LIKE MIND

Contemplating the sky is a central metaphor and guided meditation practice taught by Tara Brach to cultivate loving awareness. This practice helps us shift from a narrow, ego-centered existence to a vast, open awareness that allows all emotions and thoughts to pass through with less clinging or resistance. 

Core Principles of "Sky-Like Mind" and Guided Practice

• Vastness and Space: Imagine your mind as the clear, expansive blue sky, with thoughts, feelings, and sensations appearing as clouds or waves that arise, fall, and dissipate.

• Non-Clinging: Envision thoughts, sounds, and emotions flowing by freely without grasping them or pushing them away. They appear and disappear.

• Gaps Between Thoughts: Notice the space between thought. Allow the light of awareness to scan and shine through. Imagine your mind expanding and open like the sky – clear and spacious. Without resistance.

• Embodied Knowing: As you merge with the vastness, return to the body. Relax in the openness. Breathe in. Hold. Breathe out. Noticing an inner vitality radiating in every direction. Continuing to allow thoughts and images to pass by. By softening tension while you are at ease, the body transforms into a "field of changing sensations" rather than a mind field. 

• You are the space of loving awareness. It is home. Relax into it. Trust it. Sensing your own prayer.