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

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and as we now approach

entering into samadhi

to appreciate that there starts to be a turning

to be really here present

as if here is a home.

Here is our nest in which to settle into.

That here is a really good place to be.

And so to begin today

with assuming a meditation posture. Thank you. And in this posture of meditation,

to appreciate doing nothing for a few moments, in the doing nothing of being able to put aside,

the agendas, the things we feel we have to do,

even putting aside,

doing meditation, just doing nothing,

doing nothing in the posture of meditation

as if it's a homecoming here now

where meditation

the posture is a nest that holds everything about you.

What's wonderful and what's difficult, it all has space just to be.

We're in a situation where it doesn't have to do anything about it at first so beginning a meditation is turning away from the usual

activity of doing

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