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

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Good morning, everyone, or good day.

Welcome to Monday.

Welcome to a new day, or for those of you listening later,

welcome to maybe a new meditation.

So one of the qualities that the Buddha said supports going deep into meditation, is gratitude,

a thankfulness, not just gratitude as an idea, but thankfulness as a feeling, thought,

a feeling, an inner sense of inspiration maybe.

And one of those is really a deep appreciation for what is going right.

There's a lot that has to be going right now

for us to be able to breathe,

for us to be able to listen, to attend,

to sit to meditate,

and to not be so involved in our stories, our concerns, our ideas of past and future,

what happened and what might happen, to overlook the marvel, the wonder

of all that we receive at this moment

to be alive, alive well enough,

to engage in meditation.

And so to meditate with that appreciation

so that the call, the inspiration,

the relaxing into the present moment,

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