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

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Hello to this morning meditation in California.

And there's a gathering of a community here to meditate together,

and a gathering of each of us,

gathering all the disparate parts of who we are into some kind of hole,

some kind of gathering into the present moment.

So all of us is included in it.

And the way that we include it all is different ways. But I'd like to suggest that the most valuable place to,

at the kind of a, maybe at a center of our inner life,

that can grow in a certain kind of warmth or pleasure

or kind of an inspired feeling of the source within us, the home, is not something

to focus on directly, but rather somewhat indirectly, kind of like it's on the periphery of awareness.

And that on the center of awareness

is a number of different experiences within

of stability, to feel stable here and now. And it can be a stability in the body,

and it can be a stability in the mind, and they can be a stability in awareness.

That the awareness is softly, gently, stable here,

without having too much of a sense of

awareness is focused on something.

If anything, it's focused on this feelings of stability.

And then on the periphery, as we breathe,

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