Please come into the stoneness with a listening attention.

So you're listening to sounds around you.

Receptive.

And then just listening to the life within you.

It's a very receptive attention, noticing the experience of vibration and sensation

and the liveliness in the body with a gentle attention listening to the heart.

Just be curious as to the state of your heart right now.

You might feel the breath in the heart area.

Let your attention settle there a bit.

Dropping the question inward, what is my intention for tonight?

What is my aspiration?

A true aspiration, a spiritual aspiration is for this moment.

What really matters right now?

What's the quality of presence, of heart, of attentiveness, of being that matters?

As we begin to open to what we care about,

we can let that be the energy behind the chanting of Om, this simple mantra of connectedness.

And if you'd like to bring the palms together and just feel that full arriving in the heart area,

the humility, the devotion, the presence, the awakening, and we'll chant together three times.

Please inhale deeply.

Inhale deeply.

Inhale deeply.

A listening attention.

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