The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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To let yourself settle in, just feel your body sitting here, the body breathing, the quality

of presence that's right here.

I'll be speaking a little bit as a way of setting a context for this afternoon's heart

meditation and you might choose to keep your eyes closed and listen or open your eyes, however

you'd like.

I begin with one of my favorite lines from Roomy, which is that your path is not to seek

for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself.

You've built against it and embraced them.

In other words, identify the barriers with a real kind attention.

So today's heart practice is one of bringing presence to perhaps the most universal barrier

to loving, which is blame, the way we blame ourselves and each other.

And it's one that we really do need to approach a lot of gentleness because it's a universal

pattern, a universal way of protecting ourselves really.

One friend here shared about letting go of self-blame, really, having some deep kind

of progress in that, really releasing self-blame in all the space that opened up when

the self-blame wasn't there for love.

And in a way, that's what happens that the blaming process occupies a lot of our physical

and psychic space.

And when there's not so much identification with that, there's a lot of room for this

heart to be in its fullness, express its fullness.

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