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

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Okay, welcome, welcome folks.

Good to be with you.

I realize I think I need to meditate,

which is maybe fortunate timing, maybe not, but here we go.

So settle in, find a, get cozy,

cozy alert. Just try as best you can to recall all the moments of willingness, all the moments which you've offered your heart up to the Dharma, all the moments of sitting or lying down meditation, or walking or retreat retreat or listening to talks

or being with Dharma friends.

I realize yesterday I've been practicing for exactly half my life. So just as we begin, gather up all the goodness from your practice, just bring it right in front of you. Feel it. Let it seed your mind. You know, You know, All those moments of practice, all the moments of pain, of greed and hate, wisdom, love.

And it's all attending to this moment, we actually honor, bless all of that. Jenny. gently tending to your life. Thank you. You know, You know, The question how might it have been otherwise becomes meaningless. Just this breath. This body.

This body. Our life as it constellates in this moment. Gentle, gentle, non-violent, with the all experience. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, The We are.

We are. We plot out our pleasure, budget our pleasure as a way of taking the edge off the intensity

of the human condition.

Devise, ways out of a neatcha niche uncertainty, game out the contingency,

game out the contingencies, try to soothe

their selves into safety. You're a hash the past.

Trying to think our way through it so as to digest it, learn its lessons. Such innocent movements of mind.

Who could blame us? But there's a deeper refuge on offer.

Go for refuge. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, So, Just letting the winds of change blow right through you.

Winds of change blow right through you.

Trusting they won't harm you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, The

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