The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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please visit tarabrock.com. You may take some moments to feel the movement of the breath in the area of the heart.

And let your attention be at the heart, a kind of listening attention.

Listening inwardly, sense your deepest intention for practicing right now.

What is that your heart really longs for?

What's the quality of presence or heart or awareness that really would feel like home.

Connecting with your sincerity and feeling with others practicing that shared intention

that our moments of meditation might serve awakening and ripple out and really touch others in our world in a healing way.

Be part of the healing.

You might gently bring the palms together, the heart,

and we open together collectively as community.

We chant the mantra Ome, which is a sound current of connectedness.

We'll tend it three times. And begin by taking a nice, full in breath.

Ah! in breath. Shing I'm Oh my

and God Oh Let yourself be aware of the breath and intentionally extending the breath so it's a long, slow in-breath.

You might even count to five.

And a matched slow out breath, again, counting to five.

Breathing in, counting to five.

Breathing out, counting to five.

And if you need to make it shorter, longer. Breathing out, counting to five.

And if you need to make it shorter or longer, either way it's fine, just extend it beyond your normal breath.

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