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

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So, welcome, folks.

Nice to see your names. Yeah, a lot of old Dharma connections for the years.

Um, okay. Not sure what, uh, see what, how we meditate, but we're gonna meditate. Yeah, so finding your way into your posture. Thank you. And taking a few deeper breaths, much deeper. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Like nectar settling to the bottom of a glass of juice, Ticknut Hunts. Thank you. A million ways to suffer, but only one way to be free. And so we marshal our courage to stop trying to solve our life. And in that gesture of renouncing the impulse to solve our life.

It's the implicit understanding of our death.

That won't get salt either. And the poignancy of that

helps us

be free now.

Helps us surrender. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just paying attention to whatever is restful in you.

The settledness of your body.

The silence you might listen to, the blankness behind your closed eyes. The soothing, that is Buddha Dharma Sangha.

We attuned to what's restful rest. You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We relax and let go so that we can receive our breathing more fully.

Noticing the beginning and the ending of the inhalation,

followed very quickly by the beginning of the exhalation, and the end of the exhalation.

And sometimes people find it useful to place the attention elsewhere.

Maybe the hands or feet, the bottom of the exhale.

And so there are five distinct points, the cycle of breath. We put down our redemptive hopes in worry. in. Clinging cannot do what your heart wants most. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, We can't exactly will our way to letting go. Will our way to surrender.

We relax and soften widen Develop, uh,

develop, uh, conditions that make letting go feel more natural. Develop the confidence that we don't need to keep tabs on our life at all times. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. At some point the doingness of attention wants to bow down to the effortlessness of awareness. We've entrained enough stability,

somehow underlies awareness, but awareness is not manufactured in the house of self.

And so we take our cues from that, which is patently not me. Thank you. You know, You know, The

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