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

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Good morning.

Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. Good afternoon. Good evening. And for even if the future

you is listening to this, you know, maybe you listening to this. Maybe you listen to it again or maybe you don't listen to them in real time.

And just a warm welcome. Maybe you're even out for a walk listening on a podcast. Sometimes I'm doing this. I imagine others do this as well.

So today is the last day. I'm talking about faculties for Fearlessness. I've been going through the five

faculties. This is a standard list. Those of you have been around Buddhism for a while,

know the five faculties, but I've been doing them a little bit differently,

in a different order, and I've been highlighting particular aspects of each faculty,

rather than kind of like fleshing out the fullness of each

faculty I've been just highlighting a particular I guess aspect a particular way of looking and considering each faculty and applying it to

fearlessness. Like how can it support us for our fear because fear is just a part of this human experience.

It's just all of us have it.

Whether it's obvious or subtle, it's there in some way, maybe not every moment, but it does have an impact on our lives.

As a part of finding freedom is to meet fear, to be with fear and not to be

afraid of fear. So with that, let's start with a little guided meditation here.

Hmm, maybe starting with some deep breaths.

Our physiology is such that with some extended exhales help us to settle.

As you know with this practice, we are not manipulating the breath we're allowing the

breath to be normal just how it is. However it can be helpful to do a few breaths where we are intentionally extending the

exhale just a tiny bit. You're going to normal.

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