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

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Okay, folks, so welcome. Good morning. Good afternoon.

Yeah, yeah, sweet to see names there.

So we're going to meditate.

See what connotations that has for you in this moment.

Maybe some, uh, in this practice, something.

Okay, find your, uh, find your posture. Thank you. So just let the kindness soften everything. So soften your body and tension.

It's often the agitation clinging.

So soften the plans, expectations. Soften your fear, kindness, softens fear. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The The rigidity of self-view. Kindness soft not care.

That does not care who you think you are. So we enter the realm of the heart.

Kind of sacred realm. Thank you. Thank you. You don't have to leverage the love to defeat the hate or the fear or the whatever.

It becomes a kind of ambiance of the mind, an ambiance of non-contention. And some And sometimes this love feels quite subtle.

And And sometimes it cracks our heart wide open. So the poignancy of having been born,

of having a life with so much joy and so much sorrow. Thank you. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. The President So we, we pick up the, the sign, the kind of resonance of care, kindness, love.

Maybe it's an image or a word or phrase.

Maybe it's connected more to your body, the sense of the body letting down.

Kind of energetic softening, a subtle energy of our body

beginning to resonate at a frequency of love love Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you. The A sense of, uh, the kindness met, uh, mind, mind made vast by Meta.

The sense of the space of awareness becomes unimpeded, by holding and contraction.

The suffering, in a sense, is inherently self-absorbing. so hurt pain. The hell is no space. The hell is no space. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Maybe your love takes a particular form on this day.

The love in the face of goodness, I call it metta.

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