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

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Okay. I get to see what my equanimity level, my tequanimity is, some genius coined it,

what the tequanimity level is with glitches.

So welcome to you all.

I've been thinking about you much of today and happy to sit together.

So... So most common kind of misconception about meditation is that thinking, thinking is the problem.

If I'm thinking, can't meditate, right?

It's not that thinking is the problem, but maybe we can say our over trust in the capacity of language to solve our problems.

That's a problem.

And so, language is like the hammer and every problem, every unpleasantness is a nail. And part of what we're doing in our meditation practice is renouncing the seduction of language announcing.

And the Darma is a therapy not based in words but in action in awareness.

And so we'll sit with this in mind. I'll unfold this more after we sit.

So finding a posture that feels sustainable. You're going to. Relaxing whatever can be relaxed. You're going to see? Relaxing whatever can be relaxed and whatever tension remains is granting full permission for imperfection. You're going to see? You're not going to see. You're going to see. Part of why we relax is the urgency to fix unpleasantness recedes when there's more neutrality. you. You're going to see? And so we do what we can to relax and we do what we can to

relax and we do what we can

to to prepare our heart for the inevitability of unpleasantness,

of imperfection, of all the things that feel urgent and become like a very sticky for our attention. Rather than be surprised that something, any moment could feel wrong.

Just know that's part of the urgency to fiddle with

and drains some of the urgency

to fiddle with conditions. You're going to see. You're going to see. You're not going to see. Rest then. You don't need words to rest.

But whenever feeling comes up,

but whenever feeling comes up, we're so accustomed to soothing and medicating that feeling with our words. So part of what we're doing in Mindfulness practice is absorbing the intensity of the human condition

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