The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

As you close your eyes, just feel from the inside out the posture.

Take a moment to let the attention come to the heart.

And sense what the state of your heart is right now.

Just feeling and listening to your heart.

Whatever mood is here.

Without any judgment, just being aware.

Deepening the listening and sensing really what your deepest intention is for this evening.

Take some moments with this.

You can really sense a sincerity, a kind of innocence that comes when you really connect with

what matters to you.

It's from the place of caring about awakening, about open-heartedness, about presence that

we chant together.

The simple mantra, as a way of coming together as community.

And whether you've done this once or thousands of times, just let it be fresh in the moment,

feeling the sound current from the heart, letting yourself go into that sound current.

We'll chant three times.

And if you'd like to begin by bringing the palms together, this helps to tenderize and

open that quality of devotion and love in the heart.

And healing deeply to begin.

With a relaxed attention, just scanning through your body and noticing if there's areas

of particular tightness or tension.

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