The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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As a way of arriving, you might check your posture.

However, you are sitting if you're standing or lying down, that's fine.

But check it in sense that you're here, that you're awake in your body.

And invite your attention inward. You might close your eyes or lower your gaze.

And perhaps take a few nice, full, deep breaths.

Feeling the breath and sensing that you can feel the breath right in the heart.

So breathing in, letting the breath touch your heart.

Breathing out, releasing and letting go.

And letting the awareness of the breathing at the heart, deep in a kind of inter-listening.

Asking yourself, what is my deepest intention right now for being here?

For practicing meditation?

What is it that really matters to me?

That's what is my heart long for.

And listen inwardly. Sometimes initially that we get a kind of root response or we're just blank.

But listen, in sense, really, if I could make any wish that this meditation might in some way, deep in presence or open my heart, help me touch peace.

Help me realize the truth of who I am.

What is the wish?

The feel your sincerity. Feel that heart present.

And to gently bring the palms together at the heart.

So we'll chant as community, as Sangha.

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