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

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So welcome folks.

Welcome to you all.

Yeah, nice to see your names.

I have a different Zoom backdrop today. I'm at the Mothership in Redwood City, IMC.

And, yeah, happy to be here.

I did not deliberately position my head above the Buddha,

which is a no-no, but that's the angle here we got going anyway let us let us let us practice Thank you. You know, Thank you. So settling.

So settling, settling the way we've always done, settling as if for the first time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just letting your attention drop first into your chest, the heart center.

Expansion, contraction of your lungs. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. and dropping down again to your belly. My head and my heart and my heart feel so run through by space, but my belly, the belly I associate with the earth, groundedness, stability, gravity. stability gravity

gravity Thank you. Just keeping contact with the earth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. breathing and breathing and such Breathing in such a way that each breathing in such a way that each breath connects you more deeply to the earth, to earth element, to sense of groundedness, rootedness. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, The We pay attention in part to discover what we love, to discover our love, to let the subtlety and refinement, the attunement, sensitivity of our attention, reveal our love and care what actually matters to us moment by moment. Thank you. No. No. No.

No. Thank you. Thank you. You know, The Thank you. Oh, Oh.

And

you We don't insist upon answering the question, where is my love, what do I love? We, we are just very patient offering our attention,

letting the poignancy of having been born just come to us in its own time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. that sometime in due time in due time, the necessity of love dawns unmistakably. Thank you. From the groundedness of our belly, begin to fill out our body with heart energy. Thank you. Heart trembling in the face of all phenomena, sensitive, flexible.

Very strong because it's flexible. It becomes very natural to wish ourselves well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How can you express care for yourself, care for your life with your attention in this moment? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And you

and Thank you. You know, You know, As we become grounded, open, just one drop of love flavors, everything. Hatred becomes a kind of...

Hatred becomes a kind of fever dream.

Easy to put down. I will not betray my heart, my love.

It hurts too much.

Whatever job hatred is supposed to do, something else can do it better. So we breathe, we feel our love. Thank you. You know, The

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