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

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Okay, folks, so we should practice together.

So finding your posture.

Finding your belly.

Just live in your belly for a moment. Sense of gravity, the earthiness of your body Really taking your seat.

Really taking your seat. What did the, the, what would mean when he touched the earth? Just let your body find out right now. Thank you. You know, Thank you. I'm so used to living in my heart and my head that the attention almost drifts up like a helium balloon

out of my belly out of the bones to my head and heart but we just stay grounded in your belly, sit in your bones. Know yourself as earth.

Breathe yourself down into the ground. They stay open, but very stable. You know, You know, You know, You know, Just sensing affect in your body, kind of circuits of emotional activation. I'm just bathing the circuits in awareness, patience. Thank you. I'm Oh Thank you. It's like we have a certain unannounced vision of how our life is supposed to unfold and affect in the body.

It's the way we assess our progress towards that model of our life.

But we're invited to put down notions of what our life supposed to be what it is.

To put down notions of what it is.

To put down notions of what it is to meditate and to breathe. Let me just use everything

as a way of becoming more alive. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. Just for now.

Now.

Pleasure and preferences become very much beside the point.

Not forever, but for now. And you don't have to perform awareness. Thank you. Awareness depends on certain conditions.

But none of those conditions depends on certain conditions.

But none of those conditions are you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. Fordnawing them for knowing them. Thank you. You know, You know, The The The You know,