The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

So my friends, we started tonight talking, sheltering in love.

How do we really become the bodhisattva, offering love to our inner life, love to others?

And it comes from trusting, our belonging, trusting that the presence and the love is more the truth of who you are than any of the stories, any of the changing ways of experience.

Trusting this goodness of presence and love that really is the kind of shared field.

So even as you're listening right now, if you use your imagination, which again comes from the seeds of truth, you'll sense a lot of people also listening and reflecting around the globe.

A lot of people who like you are feeling a range of emotions, difficult waves of experience, perhaps really intense fear, or maybe some sense of waiting like something is about to happen that's scary.

But you'll sense that we're all experiencing these waves of difficulty and that in the background, behind, you know, the thoughts and the feelings, there's a presence, a witnessing presence, a tender presence that's really a field of belonging that we're all apart of.

We can trust and live from that. That's the invitation of the bodhisattva path.

So I'd like to close with a short meditation with you to explore more about how we can shelter in love, how we can wake up that loving, how we can manifest as bodhisattvas and really move through the most dangerous way.

The most difficult time in this lifetime for most of us in a way that can create a more loving world. That's the hope.

So please, if you will, take a few moments to close your eyes.

Take a few nice, full deep breaths.

Letting the breath resume in its natural rhythm. Take a moment to scan through your body and let go of any obvious tightness or tension that might have just automatically set itself up in your body as you were listening, maybe softening the shoulders, the hands,

loosening the belly, relaxing your heart.

And sensing that image of being part of a whole web of beings who are reflecting waking up together.

And you might sense the challenging waves that you've experienced in these last days, today, most recently.

And as you do, sense your deepest aspiration. How do you want to be relating to the life that's unfolding inside you?

How do you want to relate to the life around you?

What is it you want to commit your heart to in the days and weeks and months to come?

Whatever the language, the words are feelings that are there, just feel your sincerity.

And feel the goodness that comes knowing how many of us are feeling that sincere longing to in some way bring more love into the world.

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