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

Please visit our website at audiodderma.org. just being held by the silence. islands. You're going to be here. You know where? We're encouraged to bring a spirit of radical honesty to experience the

Darma never asks us to pretend ever. It's radical honesty and then it's paired with kind of radical nonviolence directed towards the entirety of our sensory life. You're going to see. You're going to see? This is our path, deeply honest and deep trust

that we do not have to fight to heal.

We do not have to fight to be here. You're going to see? You're going to be here. We just kind of cook in our own juices. moment by moment.

experience softening us,

needing the dough of our being. You're going to see. is filling your body with awareness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. And we don make it such.

We don't associate force with gentleness, but we can make it such. and our

strength and courage and our willingness can be very gentle. I'm going to be here. the awareness just blessing its objects.

objects.

with fidelity, gentleness. You're not going to be here. You're going to see? You're going to be here. where connecting rather than controlling.

The controlling the push, the pull, it's not gentle. And gentleness is not self-indulgence, were being invited to stay. to give radical permission to the ambivalence that runs straight through the center of the world. I'm going to We practice staying and being softened by what's here. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. How gently might you wash a baby's head?

Kind of make your hands soft. but clear. Maybe that's the spirit with which we hold our experience. Let me just cultivate this deep trust. trust in a kind of surrendering to the flow of pleasant and unpleasant. You're going to be here. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You can only know your mind when you stop trying to do anything with your mind. Perhaps that's the ultimate gentle mass. You're not going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to. clinging is busy.

busy.

still.

Love is still. You're 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. You're not going to be here. You're not going to. It's good to sit with you.