The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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This meditation is one of awakening our capacity for loving awareness and just as a

preface, you can keep your eyes closed and listen, this will be a short

contexting. If we really investigate awareness, there are three primary qualities that we discover.

And one of them is a cognizance or knowing that there's knowing going on, moment to moment.

And another is that that knowing is a boundless spaciousness. There's no limit, no central point to that knowing.

It's a wakeful sea of awareness. And they're completely interrelated, these qualities.

So there's knowing and there's that openness, boundlessness. And the third quality is sometimes

described as this capacity to respond, this tenderness, that when we're fully wakeful, cognizant,

and fully open, there is an innate kind of warmth, their tenderness,

in response to whatever arises. What we find as we deepen practice is that there are times that

there's a lot of a sense of warmth and tenderness, but it's conditional, it's conditioned.

It's not all inclusive, because there's not really that full spaciousness and cognizance there.

So it's love without the qualities, the vachonimity of that openness.

So that love is conditional love, and it's intrinsically good, and yet it's still limited,

because there's not that full awakeness and openness. On the other hand,

their times were quite open and wakeful, but it's a kind of dry, what they call dry emptiness,

spacious, noticing, but without any sense of tenderness or warmth. And that's because it's disembodied.

There's not a real inhabiting and feeling of the aliveness that's right here.

It's like being the ocean, but really not sensing the movement of the ways.

So for there to be unconditional loving awareness, we need all these qualities.

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