'The term 'mindfulness' may seem to indicate something quite ordinary and prosaic,' explains Joseph Goldstein, 'but the quality of mind it refers to has tremendous transformative power in our lives.' Here, the esteemed author and co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society guides you in the Big Sky Mind meditation—an expansive practice for resting in a mind that is spacious enough to hold all of our experience in the light of pure awareness.

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This session is excerpted from Joseph Goldstein's three-CD audio program Mindfulness.