Open Your Heart... Fall Asleep to Buddhist Stories & Zen Teachings for Deep Peace

Tonight, we explore what it means to find peace without closing the heart. Many of us come to meditation hoping for calm, and we find some. Over time, though, that calm can become a way of stepping back from what we feel. The Buddha taught something fuller: a path where clear seeing and kindness grow together, and where feeling deeply is part of finding peace.
Through Zen stories, Buddhist teachings and guided reflections, this long-form sleep episode explores loving-kindness, letting go, holding joy and sorrow together, mindfulness of emotions, and finding the sacred in ordinary life. It's for anyone who has grown tired of holding everything at arm's length and would like to soften again.
No prior knowledge of Buddhism or meditation is needed. Best enjoyed lying down, with the lights low, as you drift toward sleep.
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Original script written and produced by Midnight Monk. ✨🧘🌙