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

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So welcome folks.

Yeah, nice to be with you.

Okay, let's uh, that's it. You're not going to see. Either using either easing your way in, or starting on a dime and dropping everything. you're You're going to see. Sometimes we have to kind of tunnel our way into the present moment.

Sometimes it's right there waiting for us with one breath. You're not going to see. Cool. You're not going to see. Sometimes skillful to kind of palpate the psycho spiritual body, you know, where does it hurt, what needs are our blessing love awareness. the loops of thought that won't unwind. The heart aches.

anxiety is. We just do what we can to give. Do what we can to give give our blessing to the

blessing to the surges of energy and body and mind.

In this way our heart becomes more and more available to this brow. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to see? We're practicing being softened by all phenomena.

We're practicing being softened by all phenomena.

by all phenomena. By words and images we call thinking, by emotion and other sensation. By the breath. Strong. All phenomena treated like the Buddha's whisperings. You're going to see. And when the heart loses its suppleness, as it does, as it does as it will.

loses its suppleness when we become identified when imperfection feels like a must retreat to the headquarters of self and rearrange Samsara. When we soften again. You're going to be here. 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 see? You can actually feel something like this softening.

This way that we trust our heart

to meet the intensity of the human condition. You're going to see. in the clenched fist to fist of clinging to

to the release of softening. comfort then or that the softening itself is totally pleasant.

But something about it is. the kind of anxiety, agitation, of attention.

The kind of anxiety, agitation,

of attention. of attempting to control this moment

that melts away and just that as a deep relief breathing, feeling our body, or hearing sound, practicing in whatever way we practice.

Then there's some noticing of br on this. And we breathe and soften. All phenomena mean the same thing.

Let go. You're not 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. It's a path to freedom, but it's also practicing freedom,

the way an athlete practices a basketball shot, free throw or something.

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