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

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Welcome, welcome, folks. Good morning to most of you. Good afternoon to some.

Yeah, happy to be with you. The chat's fun.

So I'm your sub and happy, happy to be with you. I know a lot of these names. Very sweet. I'm grateful to Gil for

having me. So let us, yeah alertness and deep relaxation. Thank you. Because we have so much fidelity to the last moment and to all the ideas and models of self and world

can feel like freedom is very far away in this moment. Perhaps not so far.

Not so far. We might begin by just forgetting everything we know about ourselves. yourselves. Ceasing to turn yourself into

an object to be assessed, that is the beacon, the orienting point. Thank you. And it's hard to forget ourselves.

It's hard to simultaneously remember the emptiness of all points of identification.

But we train. Bowie Train.

This clears out some fresh space

for you to just breathe.

To just be a body rewarded by oxygen, expelling what's used up.

Enjoying. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This sense of self accumulates behind the radar of awareness like dust on a shelf. Sense of pressure to prove something, to perform something, to be something.

And we relax. We receive each breath like a gift and a surprise. You know, You know, You know, Thank you. It feels like in each moment we must take care of all our future cells,

that all those future cells are depending on this self now. It's a lot of pressure.

It's a lot of pressure.

As we come to be less intimidated by Anitja uncertainty. Feel less responsible for all the future iterations of me. Feel safer to relax into the open space of this moment, this breath. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. We can be precise without tension.

We can be precise without tension. Sometimes useful to notice the beginning and ending of the inhalation,

the beginning, an ending of the exhalation, and then the bottom of your breath.

It's a sense of release, surrender.

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