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

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Okay, welcome folks.

Good to be with you. So many years ago,

good to be with you.

So, many years ago Gil said something like,

it's not you who gets free, it's that you free everything else.

And it resonates with the line from the Majimandakaya that I shared some weeks ago, only when there is what

belongs to a self, is there a self?

It's not you who gets free, it's you free, everything else.

So we practice in this spirit how much might we free. So finding a

finding a posture. Thank you. So if you're sitting, stretch up towards the sky with the spine, give everything else to the earth. Thank you. Just arriving with your breath. Thank you. Just letting it all take its place in its awareness. What's excluded often haunts us.

What's excluded often haunts us. And yet to include is not to be entangled with.

To be entangled with is just another kind of exclusion.

Excluding the fear or the stickiness or the whatever.

So we include and

And we include

and

that our life

flow through awareness, not clanking into any world pools of clinging.

So we breathe. You know, You know, You know, Thank you. And how much of experience can we free?

To free our images and sounds, to free our pain, tranquility,

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