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

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So, um, so welcome. So welcome folks.

folks.

to be with you.

That's sweet to see familiar names.

So what are we gonna do?

We're gonna meditate as I was sitting

just before this for a few minutes, what came to mind, I don't know where from, why, maybe because I'm tired but as a kid good night moon that was like a bedtime ritual situation and yeah and I have not thought about that book in a long time, Good Night Moon.

And but it came up as I was sitting and it was like, okay, good night memories, good night pain,

good night feelings. Good night, Matthew. And, uh, And maybe that's our, those are our meditation instructions.

It's just like, okay, blessing all these pieces of experience with that kind of gentle

spirit. I love the rhythm. Obviously the book is so famous because kids love it, you know.

It's like, oh yeah, there's something about rhythmically moving through everything that needs to be put

down, everything we say good night too.

And so maybe we just take our cues from that tonight and look to all the things we might just bid good night too.

So that unusual instructional note, yeah, good night, Dukka, let us, let us sit, okay? Okay. You're not going to see. So maybe we begin with a few deep breaths. The in breath enlivening awakening us.

The out breath sues. the outbreath, soothing the energy of our body as if like running our hand over sand on the beach just smoothing it out. You're going to see? to say good night good night to brace against or a void or a void or It's just this very gentle gesture of putting something down. And so we sort of like palpate our psycho spiritual body what needs to be put down,

what lingered from the day or the week or this life. You're not going to see? You're not going to see. It's almost like when we've bid good night to something,

when we fully actually blessed its presence.

There's no more stickiness to it and so becomes possible to let it be in the background

it be in the background for the kind of gravitational force field

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