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

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Like nectar settling to the bottom of a glass of juice, as Tignaran says. We relax less by doing something than ceasing to do something, ceasing to do something, ceasing.

To exert a kind of willfulness on the moment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Sometimes we can almost feel a kind of gravitational pull of the silence. Thank you. Thank you. If our job is to do anything, it's to do something like yield. Thank you. Thank you. Can we sense the silence that's beneath or beyond the noise? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The or tired or sleepy, worn out from the day.

If the brightness and the readiness

for the arising of phenomena isn't there,

you have to improvise

find ways of nurturing the brightness.

But if there's a kind of alert brightness where the mind is ready for incoming phenomena,

then maybe you tend to kind of restful experiences in your body and mind.

The darkness behind your closed eyes.

The soothing, subtle, restful sensations in your body.

External quiet or internal quiet or internal quiet. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Restfulness, tranquility does not require the absence of agitation.

Just attend to the signs.

Tranquility. I'm saying. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Anything we can put down, we put down.

Anything we can't put down, we forgive ourselves for picking up. up You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. the the hunger in the mind subsides even a little.

And the richness of the moment deepens.

It takes less and less to satiate us. Just to be alive, Sus Rishi said, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. The The The The

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