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

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So we just settle into the posture and we see what the silence wants to tell us this morning, this day. You're going to see. Maybe it's less like we tell ourselves what to do when we start meditating.

And more like. when we listen to the

listen to the silence and take our cues from that. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. Right. Rui, relax, whatever can be relaxed. Grant permission for whatever tension remains to remain. You're going to see? As we relax, maybe in dramatic ways or subtle ways, the view changes.

The view from the vantage point of some tranquility changes.

Everything looks different.

It's not that the problems of our life, the complexities of it all resolve, but everything looks

different from the vantage point of tranquility.

And so even if there's just one degree of tranquility,

you notice this. notice that's. You're going going to see? You're not going to. You're going to. You're not going to. Tranquility is supported by narrowing the attentional field. Not insisting that other experiences stop or turning anything into an enemy of meditation. limitation.

The attention spotlight some phenomena

and leaves the rest of the world in the background in the sensations of breathing or a spotlet. You're going to see? You're going to see? And that's like we just make our home there.

Not bracing as the rest of the world knocks on that door,

but our home is there, become more, more intimate with the sensations of breathing. Our world we call our life, becomes much simpler. You're going to see? You're going to see? You're not going to see? And of course our worry begs for our attention, demands our attention,

and says there's so many things to solve,

contingency of our existence, demands attention. And yet if all were ever doing is solving the problem of another moment.

And it's very possible to live a whole life, only ever doing that.

If that's all we're doing something,

the heart gets fatigued.

So we consent to the kind of vulnerability, the exposure of non-worry. of not keeping tabs on every problem we have or might

keeping tabs on every problem we have or might have. We develop a kind of faith.

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