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

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Okay, so welcome folks.

Yeah, lovely to see your names.

I'm hoping that you are hearing me and

well do that the normal routine.

So I'll guide us and then offer some reflections.

I'll guide us and then offer some reflections. So thank you for the warm welcome. Yeah, nice to nice to see the, yeah, a lot of familiar names, lovely.

Okay, let's, that's it. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. Just a Just breathing in a way that smooths out the energy in your body. We're not trying to make what is painful, pleasant.

We're just integrating the felt sense of the body with our breathing. so that the awareness fills out your whole body. You're not going to be here. You're not going to see? breathing into into the numb-dowed-out or flat zones of the body, maybe the back of the body,

be certain portions of your body

tend to be unnoticed.

Don't have much access to sensation. Thank you. Then breathing into the intensity is the kind of hot spots.

So that they might be so that they might be soothed in some way. You're not going to be here. So the whole constellation of sensations that is the experience of our body is kind of lit up from within by awareness. You're going to see. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to see. Darma practice is about learning. But it's not about a kind of continuation of the autobiography that we've been reiterating to ourselves.

It's not the next chapter

in that same autobiography.

It's a radical relinquishment. And it doesn't mean you can never have your story again.

It doesn't mean your past is meaningless or anything of the sort. But we practice surrendering

surrendering such that it doesn't feel like this moment is tacked on to the story we've always

been telling. You're not going to see. We remind ourselves of our autobiography in so many ways what I like, what I dislike, what I want and need,

where my life has been where I wanted to go.

This meditation sandwiched painfully between past and a future. The headquarters of Matthew orchestrating, choreographing,

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