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

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Okay, so welcome, folks.

Good to be with you.

Yeah, I don't have anything to say.

Let's practice together. Thank you. Thank you. Maybe a few deeper breaths just to land here.

Maybe deeper than any other breath today. Thank you. And maybe we make a kind of promise to our worries and preoccupations, the loose ends of any human life, kind of make a promise that I'll get back to you.

I won't neglect you forever.

We're just queuing to the deep mind that it's okay to put down the ordinary defenses. Okay to stand defenseless. Just offer up our heart too this moment. Thank you. Whatever you think your life.

All the metrics we have, just lay it down. You know, or practice And we're practicing knowing experience very simply, what would it be to breathe without elaboration?

Every moment is so ripe with potential energy.

It can go so many ways.

We feel so compelled to elaborate on experience.

Keep our reference points. Here we just are a body breathing.

Are a body breathing. Simple, intimate.

Simple, intimate. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, Thank you. And practice can feel hard.

Instructions can feel like a cruel joke, tension, squarely, tired or wired, both. But we're often only a few mindful breaths away from something shifting. And we just attuned to the subtlety that shift. Appreciate it.

Appreciate it. Keep going. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Even the assumption I'm a human can cloud the view. As we get more quiet, we become more sensitive to the ways we construct the avatar of self.

The little bits of sense data that go unnoticed and become the ground of self. Thank you. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. What if you were never seen?

Like you were never an object in the mind of another.

Likewise, no mirrors, no, never an object in your own mind.

It's the empty phenomena rolling on. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, The The The

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