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

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So welcome, folks.

Yeah, good to be with you.

So we'll do that thing we do together.

So finding your posture. And so natural to predict that the next moment. Some level our highest priority is not being startled by Anitja. that can deaden our experience of our life. are alive. Thank you. Relaxing whatever can be relaxed. Whatever can be relaxed.

We're just practicing being alive, just available to experience moment by moment. Thank you. Being, being internally harassressed by your breathing. Sort of sweeping, soothing,

movement.

If you're breathing, unifying your body. Thank you. to the imperfections of this moment of our lives.

We don't have to say yes to those imperfections forever.

But for right now we can.

There's always something wrong.

It's something we might tweak or adjust or fix or dial in.

Just stop being baited by Mara,

only by moment. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. With each breath, just becoming secluded. Thank you. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. If there's a thread of interest, curiosity, kind of passion to know something, anything. Just follow that thread of interest.

We can't manufacture interest when it's not there,

but when it is there,

it may be the most trustworthy intention for practice. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, We're practicing, noticing, noticing new phenomena or familiar phenomena in just slightly new ways. The poetry and aliveness of not knowing or not quite knowing. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, We expect to find ourselves in the next moment. We're invited to put down these kinds of expectations. Thank you. What does it mean to cease reiterating the self?

So we breathe to our body, sense the quiet

the mind

the mind

comes

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