Greetings. I'm Tara Brock and I'd like to welcome you to these podcasts. While the talks and

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As your body becomes still, you might invite your attention right here. Just make yourself at

home right in the moment. It can help to begin with a few very conscious long breaths. Let's

together inhale deeply. And with the out breath, the conscious letting go, letting go, letting go.

Good. And then inhaling, filling the lungs, filling the chest. And again, as the breath goes

out, sense the releasing letting go. And again, inhaling deeply, filling the lungs. This time

holding for a moment when the breath is full, feeling the sensations of fullness and slowly letting

go of the breath, softening down the length of the body, letting go. As the breath resumes,

its natural rhythm, sense the possibility of relaxing as it comes in, relaxing, receiving as

a balloon inflates, opening with the breath. And with the out breath, again, kind of dissolving

outward into the space around you. Just sensing the possibility of this breath as kind of a way of

collecting the attention, relaxing with what's happening right here. The breath and the foreground,

and yet still aware in the background of the sounds that are here, senses awake. Aware of the

field of sensations, body. Aware of the heart, breathing and feeling your heart. Opening the evening,

as we do with that inquiry of what really brings us here, what our intention is for the evening.

What matters to us? As you feel with sincerity, what you care about, and we sense our shared

caring that this awakening of heart and mind might serve all beings. We will chant together,

and tonight we'll chant what's called the beehive syllable, which is the root syllable A, which is the

sound current of the heart of the opening, awakening heart. If you'd like to bring the palms together,

please do. And we'll take a deep in breath, and then just chant, and as the, when you run out of breath,

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