The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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Tarabrock.com. Mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm-mm. You might want to close your eyes and take these first moments,

feeling your sitting posture from the inside out,

and then making any subtle adjustments that allow you to be sitting in a way that's

upright so that it brings on the quality of being alert.

You can feel your posture supports being alert.

You might also perhaps lean a little bit to the left or to the right, forward, backward,

and then sense really what is center.

So there's a feeling of balanced, supported. Notice if it's possible

to sit tall, but also begin to relax the limbs, relax whatever parts of you aren't having to tense in any way to keep you upright.

Then allow your attention to rest in the most simple way on the inf, so you can feel the breath and the foreground. And still be aware of other sensations throughout the body.

And to notice just by simply bringing your attention to the breath to the body.

There's more presence.

There's more of a sense of being right here.

Letting the attention come to the heart and ask in your own heart what it is that brings you here tonight.

What is your deepest intention?

What's the intention that allows you to feel

most sincere, most truthful with yourself,

most genuine. You're going to be here. sensing yourself in community with many others who are in some way getting in touch with that

longing to be present to open our hearts to live more fully, to realize really the wholeness of who we are.

And in that spirit of community, of a shared heart space, we do some chanting together.

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