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I'm Tara Brock and I'd like to welcome you to these podcasts.

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Today's guided practice will explore another pathway that really reveals the awakened heart.

And the awakened heart is often characterized as both being empty and radiant.

And the quality of emptiness comes from that sense of true openness and the radiance from full aliveness.

So in this particular practice today, the pathways are both through the body, feeling the aliveness

of the body, but also space, really discovering the spaciousness that's possible and feeling

that in the heart.

I'd like to invite you to begin by just checking your posture and making whatever subtle adjustments

will help to serve you and feeling awake and at ease.

And as you come into stillness, briefly scanning through the body to look over any obvious areas

of tightness or tension, simply by bringing your awareness to those areas and just like if you

are clenching a fist since the possibility of unclenching, loosening, softening.

The style of this particular practice, which is adapted from a meditation called Open Focus Meditation,

uses inquiry. So I'll be asking a question and then pausing and just an invitation to deepen your

attention in that area.

Can you imagine the space between your eyes?

Is it receptive?

Open attention.

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