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

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So welcome, folks.

Yeah, nice to see your names there. Lovely.

Yeah, my name's Matthew.

I'm your substitute teacher.

You can call me Matthew for Mr. Brent Silver.

Look forward to practicing with you.

And I'm unshaved, but caffeinated.

Gil gets up early, seven.

And, But I always

really enjoy being with you

and we'll find our way.

So yeah,

find your posture and

we'll practice. You know, You know, Thank you. The Sometimes it can be useful to kind of take our inner Dharma posture slowly,

getting into a yoga asana gently.

Lering the mind, the attention, take its time together.

Then other times it can be useful to see what it's like to put down everything all at once and start on a dime. Kind of kind of abrupt putting down of the world. Thank you. Thank you. And there's a certain kind of almost ruthlessness

in the way in which we lay down the complexities of our life.

The only way we can do that, the only way we can justify that, is knowing that that

gesture, that radical gesture of laying something down will help us to love and serve more deeply. So you're invited warmly into this realm of experience where our life, our so-called life, it's just the thought arising. Thank you. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. The The siren calls of hope and fear are neither answered nor completely ignored we might feel the kind of tug on the heart.

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