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

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Greetings friends, greetings. Greetings friends, greetings, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are, wherever in the world you are, whatever time zone. It's lovely to join you, this moment in time. This is our fourth day of exploring the topic of Sadah confidence, trust in the practice.

So let's begin our sit together. Let's begin to meditate and I'll introduce the topic of the

meditation for today and of the

with reflections later. So let's begin, let's arrive.

Settling into our seats, settling into our seats, settling into our bodies in this moment in time. Arriving together as a community, spread around the world and arriving.

Together as a community,

spread around the world and arriving intimately on our own in this body in a way that only I can know this body.

Inviting this body. inviting this precious human body of ours in this precious human bird

to relax to soften, feeling the connection of the sit bones. with the chair.

with the cushion, the chair. Landing.

Landing. landing.

Through the points of contact, or sit bones with the cushion in the chair, our feet with the earth, feeling the contact points,

inviting or... inviting our spine to be upright to rise up on its own without being pushed up, but as if there is an invisible thread on top of our

head pulling up.

Vertebray by vertebrae.

The rest of the body, the rest of the muscles can relax. you're You're not going to see. And knowing the body, the sensations of the body right now in this moment in time. There might be tingling, sense of heaviness or lightness in various places of the body. You're not going to see. and knowing the movement of the breath in the body, the sensations. You're not going to see. You're going to see. You're not going to see. And I like to invite you to drop in a reflection as a seed for our practice today.

And dropping the reflection not in the head, not in your thinking space, but in your heart and

your body as if you're dropping a pebble in a pond dropping it in letting it resonate reverberate of thinking about it as if you're planting a seed. See what happens?

And here's the reflection. May I trust during this period of practice, may I trust, may I know, may I have confidence.

In this practice right now.

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