I am sorry there is no podcast of today’s meditation. I messed up the zoom conversion.

We began with attention on our settling. Eyes open. The room, that which one is sitting on, the various textures that one’s senses were providing. This expanded to how fortunate each of us is to be together online, in the environment, we have, and a simple acknowledgment and rejoicing in that good fortune.

Then, into that good fortune, into that comfortable spaciousness that each of us was experiencing, we breathed in the difficulties of the world. It took, however, many breaths that it did, the focus was the intention of breathing in the difficulties of the world. Then, we breathed out benevolence and the wish that all beings have what they need.

This was verbally and slowly guided three times.

Then, into the heart of all goodness, we breathed in all the hardship of the world. It could be human hardship, or the hardship of salmon trying to go upstream to spawn and being obstructed by dams or old tires, and such. The hardship could be the hardship of the soil to retain its moisture, to provide for growth of plants, or the microbial life within the soil to thrive. The intention was the focus, not how many breaths one breed. Then we breathed out that all beings were relieved of hardship, and that all hardship was resolved. Several breaths would go; the intention to breathe this out was what mattered.

We took our time, abiding in peace, knowing that it would go into the world. Then, one last time, breathing in all the difficulties of the world, and breathing out the easing of those difficulties through benevolence. And finally breathing in all hardship, taking our time. And then breathing out that all hardship will be resolved, knowing that most of the hardship is human created and therefore can be humanly solved.