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

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Hello and welcome to this Friday talk on the series on Insight.

And for those who have you been following the whole series,

today's talk might make a little bit more sense.

So I'll start with an analogy.

Say that somehow, maybe through meditation,

maybe after a nice day in the park,

napping under a tree and being content and happy. Safe at home, everything's

fares are settled for now and just, just content and happy. And there could be a feeling that

it's fine just to be alive and just being present and all of who we are is allowed

to be there. We're at home with ourselves. And the mind is quiet and peaceful. Maybe it's

gotten very, very quiet and content. Kind of happy, but happy, the kind of happiness doesn't require any thinking about something,

not happy about something in the world and reviewing it, but just simply happy to be alive,

the vitality of goodness coursing through us. And it's taken a long time to get quiet and

peaceful, settled, maybe a long time to get quiet and peaceful, settled,

maybe a long period of meditation practice

to really arrive at a place of being peaceful, calm, settled,

at home with ourselves, not preoccupied by things.

And then,

somehow, just spontaneously,

unbidden,

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