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

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Maybe as we begin, almost undetectable crack, just the slightest smile. You're going to Just let those sensations ripple through your face maybe more broadly. You're going to be here. This is not an attempt to blood out the suffering given to any life given to know some measure of joy can go. Joy can coexist.

difficulty. You're going to be here. Our mind has a lot of difficulty with ambiguity, the mixed upness of life, the experience of ambivalence, and be valent.

Different balances. Naturally, we kind of treat each moment as a problem to solve and we can miss simple delight of a quarter smile. I'm You're going to be relaxed. Grant permission for any tension that remains to remain. and find a place for your attention to rest that feels soothing or even pleasant subtly or obviously. Thank you. One facet of equanimity is letting go of the friction with difficult experience, but there's another aspect which is simply allows difficulty or unpleasantness to be in the background while we highlight the subtly pleasant.

Just stay there for a minute or two. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're And not just let that pleasant feeling mingle with your breathing,

just like the breath catches the

the gust of pleasantness. Just breathe in a way that makes you really want to be alive. I'm going to Breathe in a way where we know each breath is Donna, generosity. generosity offered to us to enjoy. you're You're going to see. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Maybe it feels right just to stay practicing in this way. Catching the thread of pleasure and breathing.

The oxygen hunger that's satiated,

expelling that's been used up, a relief in that.

A lot of pleasure in that cycle. or maybe practice in such a way that the anchor is not with our breathing, but the anchor is everywhere. You're going to be here. that there is truly nothing outside the focus space, the circle we draw around the phenomena included contains everything. You're going to be here. In a sense, our suffering requires mindfulness to collapse. requires identification with some with some reflective phenomena. You're going to be here. That which we're awake to, never fully defines us as never the last word. So we stay wide awake until the arising and passing phenomena.

Not trying to cobble together a kind of vantage point, a lookout.

We just open,

in trust in awareness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Even to make sense of my voice, my meditation instructions, a subtle kind of identification. Maybe that's part of guided meditations.

But the hunger to make meaning

and sometimes the charade of Mara. And so maybe my voice.

And so maybe my voice and everything else just becomes sound. You let go of my instructions in order to practice them. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be. You're going to be here. You're going to.