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

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Okay, welcome.

Sweet to see all the names.

Warm wishes to each other to me.

Okay, let's settle in.

As we settle in.

As we settle in.

It's a kind of gentle effort not to fit this moment into everything we think we know.

Everything we know about ourselves, the meditation, the life.

But instead, kind of stands of not knowing openness.

It's so easy to take up the residents in the familiar

place of self.

This is what I do when I sit, sort of occupy a place and look at my breath, my body, listen.

Then whatever we do.

Maybe the instruction as we begin something like don't locate yourself.

Don't try to reestablish all the familiar reference points.

Do what where I am.

We just open in this new way.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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