So finding a comfortable posture.
Being generous with yourself,
With your body right now.
Making sure that you have comfort and relaxation at whatever level is available to you.
Maybe recognizing that you are already being generous towards yourself by giving yourself just these few minutes to sit.
Bringing up some gladness for that.
Gladness that you are giving yourself this time and also gladness that you're able to do that.
That we are all able to do that and to be together.
In this strange but kind of wonderful online way.
Locating the breath or the sounds in your environment as an object of awareness and just resting.
The attention there.
That whenever you have time on this today live and so Thank you.
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And then maybe calling to mind some way in which you were generous in the most recent past,
Even something very small.
But it also could be something big.
And recalling the feeling of generosity.
What did it feel like?
Is it even possible to locate the feeling of generosity in the body?
And if so,
Where?
Is it in the heart?
Is it in the belly?
In the hands?
And then,
What did it feel like?
Several of you here today,
We know each other really well,
And I know that you are really generous people,
And notice if anything gets in the way of noticing your own generosity.
And I'm going to ask you to do that.
I wish I hadn't done that.
Thank you.
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I'm going to take a brief amount of time to see what happens when we pay attention to generosity.
Getting interested in it.
As a practice.
As Norman says,
It's a practice.
Part of the practice,
Of course,
Noticing generosity when it comes up and how it feels.
Engaging in generosity.
And then,
Letting go of the inquiry and just taking one or two breaths,
Conscious breaths,
And fluttering open the eyes if they've been closed.
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