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

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So, hello and welcome to our meditation session.

Delighted to see the names I see there.

And some names I don't see very often.

This is very happy.

And so yesterday the theme was saying yes, not to accept everything, but to say yes to the possibility of neither accepting or rejecting.

I didn't say it that way, but to say yes to when we let go,

let go of our clinging, preoccupations, and concerns.

We're not accepting or rejecting our concerns.

We're saying yes to something better.

We're saying yes to the awareness that knows it.

Yes to the freedom.

Yes to the, maybe you can say metaphorically

to the space between

the knowing

and what is known

that there is a distance

there is a spaciousness

and to enter into this quiet, still awareness, knowing,

recognition of things in a peaceful way is so good. So whatever comes into awareness, we say yes.

Not to reject it, not to condemn it, not to accept it, not to praise it,

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