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

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Sometimes we get into our Dharma posture very gently,

the same way somebody might get into a yoga asana

where the getting in is as important as the getting to.

But other times, it's counseled by one of my teachers Shinsen Young, who'd say,

start on a dime. Sometimes we have to do that in our life.

And so here we practice kind of ruthlessness with respect to the trail of distractions and dramas.

We start on a dime.

Maybe it feels like, wait a second, I need to tend to all those loose ends.

I need to patch things up, figure things out.

It feels like neglecting a loved one to put down our thoughts, but put him down.

And if there's pain that comes with that, if there's a sense of vulnerability or incompletion,

just feel that. Thank you. You know, You know, The renunciation involves the willingness to feel.

Renouncing a thought that feels important to tend to the egoic wound that feels

important to nurse, the uncertainty, the ambiguity that feels necessary to game out.

For our life, that life to become less sticky involves the willingness to feel. To not use. To not use the pacifier we call thinking. Thank you. Just breathe and be with your body.

Be with your body.

Tend lovingly, clearly, to the emotional circuits of your body that make a plea about the necessity of thinking. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, We practice bringing equanimity to the emotional activations. One of the effects of this is that everything becomes less urgent. Grant. Thank you. You're not pretending the rest of your life doesn't exist, but right now this is your life.

It won't commence when class ends.

Tomorrow begins.

This is your life. May we be free. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. The closer we get to experience, the more fully we need to forget ourselves.

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