The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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As you come into stillness, you might feel the movement of your breath and sense the breath

in the area of the heart.

As you feel the area of the heart, increase that listening in words.

You're listening to your heart.

And the inquiry is really, what is your intention, your deepest intention for practice, for meditating right now?

What are you hoping for?

What are you longing for?

Listen for what you feel really sincere about, what really matters to you.

We open our practice together as a community with a very simple chant.

It's a kind of universal sound current of connectedness, the mantra, and we'll chant it three times.

You might want to bring the palms together, touching lightly in front of the heart, gathering the attention even more fully here.

And then take a nice deep end breath.

And the stillness, feel your body breathing.

And as you do gently scan through your body and sense what might want to let go a little right now.

You can release obvious tension, habitual tension.

And slowly scanning from the top of the body down, you might feel the area of the brow.

Sense that you can smile into your eyes a little.

You might even imagine and sense the outer corners lifted.

Let the brow be smooth, the eyes soft.

And become aware of the sensations and the scalp and the skull.

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