And letting your body come into stillness, letting your attention go within, eyes closed.

We'll take a few full breaths together as a way to collect attention, so let's inhale deeply,

fill the lungs, nice full in breath, and releasing the breath slowly. Slowly enough, you can

feel the sensations as the breath leaves the nostrils, and then inhaling again deeply,

filling the chest, filling the lungs.

You're full holding the breath for a moment, and as you do stretching the chest open,

shoulders back and down, sitting up nice and tall, holding the breath, holding, holding,

slow release, exhaling, letting go, letting go, letting go, and again, inhaling deeply,

filling the lungs. Hold a moment, feel the sensations of fullness,

and this gentle out breath, softening down the length of the body, exhaling, letting go,

relaxing as the breath resumes its natural cycle.

Aware of the breath, let the senses be awake, so you're aware of the whole field of

sensation in the body, sounds around you.

And aware of that quality of hearingness of presence,

that just in a few moments become so much more accessible as we pay attention.

As you settle into this presence, bringing your attention in a gentle way to

the heart and to whatever your intention might be for this evening.

Sense where your own sincerity opens up where you feel that kind of innocence

really in touch with what matters to you.

And widening the attention to sense our shared aspiration, our Sungar community,

holding in our heart all beings with the wish that these practices, this awakening,

ripple out to bring healing and freedom to all.

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