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

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Greetings everyone, greetings. Good morning, good afternoon,

good evening, wherever in the world you are and again it's so lovely to see all

the hellos and greetings in different places coming

from different places in the world. I'm Nicki Maggofuri delighted to be practicing together

this week.

So, yeah, let's sit together.

Let's land, let's sit together.

How nice to sit with, with Sanga, with community, feeling, ah, feeling the presence from all around the world.

So, beginning, beginning, arriving again and again, fresh in this moment. Might I've been thinking, doing, running around,

in the previous moments leading up to this.

And here we come, we rest.

We rest. rest.

for a moment.

Allowing ourselves to connect with the sense of stability,

sense of stability,

touching the earth with our bodies,

becoming aware that we are touching the earth.

Feeling our feet on the earth,

relaxing our legs,

feeling our sit bones on the cushion or the chair. Feeling these touch points,

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