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

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Okay, so it's our Friday here and sit in a moment.

Sometimes it's occurred to me that, excuse me, it's occurred to me that all thinking is coping.

Coping is maybe has a pejorative kind of tone, but it's like, yeah, we think to cope in one way or another, and very powerful. another and so it gets reinforced at such a deep level.

And the darma is about doing something a little new

and to actually release our coping strategies, our kind of moment by moment coping strategies.

We need something like faith.

And the faith we need is a faith in in silence that it's safe to let go.

A faith in letting go, faith in love and a faith that it's okay safe enough to stop reading the signals of our body, the kind of

effective stimulation, the emotional activation, the state of arousal,

balance to cease reading that as indicative of threat or opportunity.

And to, in a sense, all the feeling that we feel means the same thing to let go. So we'll practice and explore. So finding a posture that feels sustainable. You're going to. You're not going to see. You're going to see? Just bringing some soothing to your body mine. You're going to see. You're not going to be here. Everything looks different from the perspective of tranquility. You're not around the eyes temples. Relax our belly.

soft belly. You're going to see? You're not going to see? Some reassurance that it's not neglectful to put down complications, the loose ends of our life, the problems that need to be solved. It's not, can feel like neglect not to chew on those at all moments.

It's okay. Okay to put them down. It's not neglect. You're going to see. You're not going to see. You're going to see. You're going to see? In the end, our thinking cannot protect us from life. But our heart training can do so much. You're not going to see. So we nurture kind of faith in silence. You're not going to see? You're not going to see. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. The present moment doesn't wish to hurt you. letting go doesn't wish to cost you. You're not going to see. You're going to see. You're going to see. You're going to see? You deserve. It is our deep habit to over read all phenomena.

to make them mean too much. It's maybe today, just for a moment.

That may be today, maybe just for a moment.

We stop. You're not going to see? You're not going to be here. You're going to see? You're not going to see. the movements of our mind so innocent, so innocent that we scramble and I'll cope. But if all we do is scramble and cope, if it takes the heart. the silence The silence doesn't care even a tiny bit who we think we are. You're not going to see. We come to listen to the silence, Take our cues from it, trust it. Keep letting go into it. You're going to see? You're going to see? You're not going to see? You're not going to be here. You're not going to see? You're not going to see? You're not going to see? You're not 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. I'm going to.