The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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We'll be exploring the heart practice of compassion today.

And when you consider radical compassion, living compassion to major components, and one that

it's embodied, that there's a visceral quality of tenderness.

And the other main quality is that it's all inclusive, which means that as we open and

feel that tenderness for one expression of suffering, it's really a tenderness that

has a vast quality that includes all suffering everywhere.

And so practices that cultivate radical compassion are actually practices of undoing our resistance

to contacting vulnerability.

The alchemy of compassion that arises naturally when we allow ourselves to connect with the

vulnerability that's here.

So the compassion practice is actually undo the resistance.

And there's another undoing, which is the grasping that has us keep on holding on to experience

versus letting it really be held by the wholeness of being.

So compassion practices undo grasping too.

And to me, the practice that is most powerful in the domain of compassion is some variation

of the tongue-line practice, which is a Tibetan practice.

This formerly described as taking in and offering out.

And for many people using the breath as a key kind of way to practice with tongue-line is

powerful, and for some people it's not.

So you'll have that option as we go.

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