The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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The Buddha taught that as part of arriving, settling, entering any meditation or anything

in our lives, the value of gladening the mind.

The many ways to remember what we're forgetting, remember in some ways what we love.

Just to invite you to begin by taking some moments to reflect on whatever you feel most

grateful for.

Reflect on what you love.

And as something, some experience comes to mind, take some moments to let the good feelings

that come with that be felt, be felt sense in the body.

Let yourself and train some, really rest in that, soak it in, feel it.

Sensing what it's like to have the experience of appreciation, really spread through the body, mind and being.

And you can deepen that as we've practiced some together with the image and the felt sense of a smile.

You might imagine the great open sky around us filled with the curve and the sense of a smile, a vast smile.

Sensing that openness of space and a smile filling it.

And then letting that smile spread through the mind, letting the mind emerge with that great sky.

So your mind is filled with the curve and the felt sense of a smile.

Letting the smile spread through the eyes, lifting the outer corners slightly.

That's a natural softening, awakening, letting the brow be smooth.

Losing the jaw be unhinged, slight smile at the mouth, filling the inside of the mouth smiling.

Noticing the whole play of sensations for the area of the lips, tongue gums teeth.

You might visualize and sense a smile spreading through the throat area.

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