The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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I'm meditation that to me is the most powerful training in bodhicitta in a very immediate way,

learning to offer loving and receive it.

Take a moment to sit however you're most comfortable, close your eyes, take a nice full deep breath, inhale and exhale.

Let the breathing be felt at the heart.

You might imagine a smile spreading through your heart.

A smile that allows you to sense the space that's there.

Not to cover over, but just to have room for whatever you're feeling right now.

In sense if there's any part of your being right now that is needing attention, needing kindness, needing care.

We can scan and notice most of us, we move through the day and we don't recognize that there are places in us that are feeling anxious or lonely.

Sad, upset, off balance.

Just notice what might want attention.

You might gently put your hand on your heart and feel that you're beginning to offer just from your own highest, wisest, kindness being attention, presence, kindness.

You might vary the touch so it feels tender, light, real.

You can see if you can invite the energy of this universe that is intrinsically kind and loving right here.

You might ask for and invite that love to be flowing and bathing through your hand into your body, bathing the place that most needs it.

You might even sense the close in presence of love, loving awareness, the beloved.

Imagine that blessing that you're being blessed with love.

For some to feel it as a kiss on the brow, a touch on the brow.

So it's very intimate and immediate, the sense of taking in love and letting it wash through.

It's a heart space that is always in a ready here, opening and merging with that loving presence around you.

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