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

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So good morning.

Welcome, welcome.

And wherever you are on this planet, maybe it's not morning, but sending warm wishes your direction.

So today, I will continue on this theme of these letters from Mara.

Is, you know, completely made up letters, but I appreciate them.

They have some whimsy in them as well as you know some truth, maybe a little bit of uncomfortable truth into them.

But as you know, that will begin with a guided meditation.

So establishing yourself in a posture that feels comfortable.

Some of you that will be sitting, whether it's on a cushion or in a chair from a couch.

It is establishing yourself in a posture that feels comfortable and feels grounded.

And if you are sitting, feeling that uprightness of the posture,

without stiffness, but in uprightness, so ease.

And trying to think of a synonym for uprightness, but if you have one, you can insert it into your mind.

And then letting the awareness sense into the body, the bodily experience right now.

Letting the awareness inhabit the body.

And what would it be like to let this awareness feel and encompass the whole body?

The quality of spaciousness.

Spaciousness and ease.

To mean into being sensitive to the experience of the body.

Now, whatever the body is right now, might be restless, might be tired, might be a little bit achy, maybe a lot achy.

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