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

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So, folks,

to certain Wednesdays, certain Wednesdays with Matthew,

production by Matthew.

I'm Matthew. It'm not really a production and it's not officially called

certain Wednesdays but I like that certain Wednesdays because I'm here certain Wednesdays and I am not

certain about much at all but we're here practicing nonetheless and thank you.

Thanks for yes and hi lovely to see you your your names, and we'll sit and see what happens. You're going to be. Whenever it would get real hot or cold in the meditation hall the teacher would say as we sat there,

teacher would say in the summer, the Buddha sweats,

in the winter he shivers. And so if the temperature as a number of people said if the

temperature has a number of people said, if it's not at the kind of set point for your body, just

take stock of how it affects your heart mind. You're going to be here. Any subtle bracing

bracing, practice releasing that. You're going to be here. It's not that conditions have to be just right for us to surrender, let go. They're never just right for that.

So we actually leverage the imperfection

as a motivation to stop fighting. You're going to be here. And when we stop fighting we become porous to the darma. You're going to be forever.

But for right now, we give. We give permission for all the conditions that comprise this moment

to be as they are.

All the loose ends of any human life.

Everything that could get better, we give permission

for it to be as it is. You're going to be here. And we know that we've actually given deep permission for that which is changes softens. The permission

reshapes the constellation of phenomena of our life. You're going to be here. I'm going to You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Just to fill your body with awareness. I'm going to less like we're pouring the awareness from our head into our body and more like our

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