The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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The aspect of this practice just in just appreciating a simplicity of being, not needing to prove

yourself, not needing to get anything or be different than who you are. A corollary of that is that this

hope, this practice, and when I say this practice, it's really your practice.

There's no practice except you practicing.

But this practice is kind of like a, is a, come as you are party.

You get to be yourself.

You get to be yourself.

You get to show up as yourself, whatever way you are. And that can be all that's good about you,

all that's difficult about you, all that's difficult about you, all that's challenging about you,

just it's all welcomed here.

And this idea that the darmized refuge for us means partly the daras is a refuge for us means partly the darma is where we can show up and at least here

in this practice kind of be willing to be as we are.

Whether you should do that publicly, that's, you have to have some wisdom about that

because maybe other people can't quite manage whatever you want to bring and so you

have to have some street smarts about what when to speak up or want to be you know what you want to do

but as a minimum

when you sit down to practice for example and really kind of tuning into yourself

This is where you're creating a refuge you're creating a space for you to get to be yourself.

Even if you're what comes up doesn't seem so wonderful. You get to be yourself. You get to find a way to be as you are, and then

from there allow what needs to happen to grow, to unfold, to be clear, to be resolved,

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