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

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Good day, friends.

I hope you are well in whatever time zone and whatever location on this planet of RZR.

Be delighted to be joining you in this moment in time to continue to explore the five aggregates this week together.

So today we continue exploring with the third of the five aggregates.

Sanya, S-A-N-N-A in Pali, Sanya, which often translates as perception or recognition.

And what an important constituent of our experience to really become aware of and turn towards and really see.

So I'll say more about it when we turn to the dharma and for now let's practice together.

I'd you to find a posture that is comfortable for you, whether you are sitting,

lying down or standing in this moment in time.

The posture that is both comfortable and has a sense of integrity.

Allowing the muscles to be relaxed as relaxed as possible.

And allowing the uprightness of the spine, if you are sitting, to really come from your sit bones,

from a supported base that is relaxed and well rooted,

and allowing yourself to be held up as if by an invisible force as if there was a magnet,

a very gentle magnet pulling up.

The top of your head ever so gently, you can let go and relax any effort.

Relaxing any effort.

And being in the flow of both, feeling present,

engaged in your posture, the posture of your body, the posture of your mind,

the posture of your mind also, be engaged with this practice, not with thinking, planning, past, future.

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