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

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So welcome. Good morning to Mosque afternoon in Ireland, I believe, stuff.

Anyway, nice to see the chat and names and where people are happy to be practicing

together.

So, yeah, find, find a posture.

Take your time to attune to attune to what um little micro adjustments are conducive for uh letting go and um... the posture that feel satisfied enough with that we can make a kind of truce with

with the imperfection of having a body You know, You know, Thank you. The You've likely taken quite a few conscious breaths over the course of a meditation practice,

maybe a whole Dharma life.

In this moment, we look for a way of breathing

just for maybe a few cycles that signal to the deep mind that this moment is good enough to begin letting go. Thank you. Thank you. It's I'm and I'm and The The kind of frameworks and stories and models we have about our self and our life and our

past and future.

It's not even that they're all wrong.

We just notice that they require reiteration to keep being

propped up.

There's some stress in them.

There's some relief putting it down. The worry in us says, no, no, no, not safe to put anything down ever. As if our worry is what is keeping us save. We can come back to all of that, but for now,

maybe the moment is good enough that we don't have to track the landscape of threat and opportunity moment by moment.

Instead, can breathe can hear the sounds

and the silence

can attune to the restfulness

of having our eyes closed,

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