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

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Maybe... Maybe for this first minute just don't do anything.

In the sense, see how many things you might

in a sense, see how many things you might stop doing, how many things you think meditation

asked you to start doing. Whatever consciously can be stopped, just stop. You're going to be here. You're going to be here. I'm going to It's a certain kind of confidence that Freedom is on offer that there's already goodness here, that it's not the self and the self-efforting that clause its way to freedom. You're going to be here. I'm going to Sometimes our f- And sometimes our doing, our effort, our intentionizes the sense of self.

Sense of the meditator pulling the strings behind the scene. You're going to be here. And so we experiment with relaxing,

relaxing all the conscious impulses to do something

rather than to trust something. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to see? If there's something you can't stop doing, that's okay, don't double down and try to stop what you cannot stop. Just practice relaxing the deep impulse

of doing, performing. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Now let us practice doing something but almost like with the spirit of non-doing.

Doing something but somehow doing it in a different way than we've tended to do it. it somehow not repeating that kind of subtly desperate energy of doingness.

but instead very openly receiving your breathing. You're going to see. You're going to see? Don't congeal sense of you the meditator behind that

the receptivity just receive.

It's beautiful rhythmic flow. 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 We're careful not to source our meditation instructions from places,

voices within us that are impatient unwise, moralistic.

We're not letting the super ego do our meditation. That's not the headquarters.

But we instead source our counsel and motivation from something deeper in us more intuitive and embodied. And so it's safe to ignore every voice that's harshly critical or full of self or full of compulsivity doing this. You just find the thread of our practice elsewhere. square. Thank you. 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 here. You're going to be here. You're going to.