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

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That familiar breath, that's also so fresh. You're going to see? The visual imagery of breathing is often prominent.

We're feeling or breath, but the subtle visual images, even with our eyes closed, are like guiding

the attention to the sensations of breathing. You're going to see? And what if we were surprised that at the end of the in breath, an out breath followed rather than somehow miraculously another

in breath. You're going to see? How do we give ourselves to thinner and

thinner slices of time. You're going to see? sense of intimacy with the constellation of sensations that compose our breathing. I'm going to. you're You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. We just let our breathing awaken the senses. This memory of, you know, putting too much kind of spicy mustard on a spring roll and just blows out the

nasal cavity or something just wide open.

That's kind of how the breath can be

just for all the senses.

Even if you're just for all the senses.

Even if you're tired, even if it's the end of a long day. You're going going to be here. I'm going to We elevate peace. peace above all else.

we abide in peace. Sometimes we are making peace. Sometimes we're making peace.

Making peace with the loose ends of the day or the life. Stumpy seduce. Stonebe seduced by fake refuge. 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 We forgive our minds for all the patrolling that they do and all the foraging, foraging in the realm of thoughts. You're going to be here. We reconnect with this moment with Darma. Ma. That the breath breathe life into our attention. you're You're going to be here. Just make your home in your breath. It's very soothing when our world of experience gets simple and small. Very soothing when all the arrows in our beings start to line up in one direction. And just to be alive is enough, just to breathe together to know.

Just to be alive is enough. Just to breathe together.

It's enough. just to know. know. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Do. If there's something especially sticky in the heart mind, something that repeatedly pulls your attention maybe good to move into the felt experience of that stickiness, the sense of emotional activation in our body that makes something feel urgent or draws

our obsessional tendencies out. And maybe we linger with that affect of emotional arousal. rational arousal until it settles a bit. And then maybe it feels inviting to come back to the rhythm of breathing. 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 going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. You're going to be here.