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

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Good morning, good morning.

Today we'll continue this idea of the faculties for Fearlessness and there's so many fun alliterations we could do with five fabulous fun faculties for

fearlessness for freedom forever.

I'm sure there's a minute fine, we can somehow slip in that word fine in there somewhere, but for the titles, I'm just saying,

faculties for Fearlessness. And today we're not so much in the guided meditation, but in the little talk that I'll give afterwards,

we're going to talk about a second faculty. And's as you may have noticed I'm not going in the

usual order of the faculties instead I'm going in an order I think that a way that we

can work with them to be with our fear and today's

well maybe I'll save what it's going to be during the when I do the little

dormant because when I say the word we bring a lot of ideas to it and I want to introduce maybe a little different idea so I'll wait to say it until then. But until then, let's settle into a guided

meditation.

So taking a moment to settle in, feeling yourself sitting, sitting.

Like what does it feel like to be in this particular configuration of body and mind?

Feeling the sensations of sitting, the sensation of the touch, pressure with the floor, with the cushion, chair, couch, bed, wherever you are.

Even the pressure of the contact, whatever it is the body is contacting at this contact as a foundation for our settledness or arriving. You're going to see. Feeling the sense of stability that comes with this contact and foundation.

We're here, here. Chances are the contact is with your buttocks.

Maybe the back sides of your legs, your feet. And maybe you're back leaning against a chair, lying down, feel the contact and the body isn't necessarily contacting anything, but bringing attention to the belly. Can it be soft?

Relaxed. Can we bring an aliveness of attention of presence?

Can we bring an aliveness of attention, of presence to the belly moving the shoulders back just maybe nobody if they were to

look at you would notice but just a small movement. Bring in this aliveness, this presence to the face.

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