two bottles of esssential oils
two teenagers in the front both with one bottle each of essential oil

We will do a guided meditation on smell/scent. First listen please..................
The two fairies here in front want to bless you with essential oil
They will put one drop on you temples so please come forward to receive their blessing.
Is anybody allergic to essential oils?
then please do not come forward just stay where you are and you will smell something else instead.

Please come silently one after another to receive your blessing and then go straight back to your cushion in silence.
Sit down there and just watch until everybody else in back on their seat and please stay silent so that your attention is on the scent which will fill the air in the shrine room soon.

Sit in a comfortable position and please close your eyes.
first of all direct your attention to the body and your breath.
Drawing in air from the nostrils down into your throat, your lungs and all the way back out again
belly expanding..... belly contacting....
do that for a few breaths.
try to get a good sense of your breathing.

Direct your attention to the scent.
In which part of your body do you actually sense it most clearly
is it in the nose itself or more in the background between the nose and the mouth?

Can you locate the place of smelling at all?
Is the sense of smelling pervading the whole space of where you think your head is?
Open up to this space and allow your awareness to expand to its natural spaciousness?
Can you feel your body breathing in this space?
Let the sensations of scent happen in this space as well as sound feelings whatever arise?
Smelling can be doorway for spacious awareness.

What feeling tone comes with the scent?
Is it pleasant unpleasant or neutral?
Does the scent bring up memories images, thoughts, stay with this for a while?
bring your attention back to the scent?
can you still smell it?
or has it faded?
where does the scent fade into?

-bell -

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