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

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Okay, welcome, welcome, folks, welcome friends.

I'm happy to be here.

I've been away for a little bit.

But the practice continues for all of us.

And yeah, happy to practice together, offer some reflections.

So let's, let's, yeah, get stalled together. Thank you. Maybe you give yourself some space and time to take your Dharma heart posture, kind of gentle way that maybe yoga teacher might counsel us to get into a particular

posture asana. Maybe you take your time. Maybe you start on a dime.

And just drop everything.

Even though putting down what's sticky leaves a kind of residue of some pain,

some sense of neglecting something.

Maybe it's okay, you start on a dime. Thank you. Thank you. At points in practice, we become bored with samsara.

Bored by bored by

the promises of praise and gain. and just become fatigued by the compulsive effort to keep everything together all the time. Thank you. Thank you. And craving is always about one word. Next.

We dignify our next by talking about spiritual growth, samadhi, progress. But next is next. Just this breath.

Breath. Thank you. We're too busy knowing to congeal the notion of my life, my practice, my sit. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. sometimes it feels almost impossible to take just one mindful breath

it's like we'll never make it through one mindful breath.

It's like we'll never make it through the meditation period.

But actually often only takes just a few conscious breaths in order to land in a slightly or significantly different place. The burden of agitation and avoidance and melts even a little.

It's worth a lot. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Forgive all phenomena.

Whatever you call your mind,

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