The following meditation is led by Tara Brock.

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With your eyes closed, take some moments from the inside out to adjust your posture in any

way that might help you so that you're sitting and feeling tall that there's an upright quality,

feeling a sense of balance.

You might lean forward a little bit and then backwards to the left to the right.

And just sense as you center that feeling of balance, so a bright balance, and then allowing

whatever muscles that want you to relax and let it go.

Bring a gentle attention to the heart area.

You've sensed the state of your heart right now.

It might be the first time you've checked in with your heart in recent history, or maybe

not, but just notice without judgment if there's a numbness or if there's sensitivity, if

there's excitement or if there's fear, how awake your heart feels, tender, defended.

Maybe let that listening deepen so you can sense into what your heart is longing for,

is wanting right now.

What brings you here in a deep way brings you here to practice, to present.

And as you connect with some sense of that sincerity, that prayerfulness or longing that feels

deep, that feels true, you might gently bring the palms together, just establish that heart

presence as we chant, and we'll chant the simple, mantra, ohm, see, sound current of connectedness,

carrying us into oneness, chant three times, and we begin by inhaling deeply.

Aware of your body sitting here, your body breathing.

And consciously extending the breath so the in-breath is full and deep.

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