The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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A little background on the forgiveness practice.

In the Buddhist tradition, forgiveness is considered a kind of clearing the way for really

freeing the heart for the metapractis, compassion practices that come out of it that we first

forgive.

And some described forgiving is really the ongoing process of the spiritual path that we're

over and over again, releasing the armor in around our hearts.

It's quite natural these human incarnations to keep contracting.

So our practices to notice and let go.

Notice and let go.

And it can be on a very light level of just noticing tension in the body and releasing

or it can be a very deep forgiving of the armoring around wounds that we've been living with

for decades.

And the teacher described really the freedom that's possible when we commit to not pushing

anyone out of our hearts, including ourselves.

And yet there's this misunderstanding about forgiveness that in some way if we open our

hearts to people who've caused harm that we're condoning, we're saying go ahead and step

on me again or hurt me again.

And so just to clarify that forgiving is a movement of our heart to release that encasement,

the kind of when we get wounded, we develop a scab, but then we keep it on and keep it

on and never really get to breathe the life through our heart.

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