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

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So just beginning by sensing the presence of other beings. beings, the good will in this network we call a sanga. You're going to see? Just checking into the energy in your body mind.

You're tired, wired, both sat on, right, right. just kind of inclined towards balance. You're going to be here. I'm You're going to. You're not going to. We relax what we can relax, so that we know more, sense more, feel more, more brightness. Yes.

We relax in other words, so that we can be genuinely alert. you're You're going to. You're going to. We're not practicing hypervigilance, but there is a quality of poise in the attention such

that some phenomena sprung up, prominent.

We would appreciate it quickly.

We're cultivating an attention that selects its object.

And magnified. and magnifies that object we soak into it the breathing, sound, mental images, body sensation, emotional sensation. And so we're alert and oriented and develop a kind of fidelity to the object.

Maybe we say Somadi concentration,

maybe just very briefly.

but as if the attention world remains in the background. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to. And it can feel almost a neglectful not to tend to the landscape of threat and opportunity in every moment and feel neglectful not to think and worry.

Can feel neglectful not to give thought it's due. But that's just how bad.

And for right now, it's not neglectful to be very, very simple. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You just kind of practice putting down our life. It's the busyness that is some sorrow.

Always something to worry about.

at stake, something vulnerable. And part of our practice is opening to all of that and another part is giving our heart rest so that we can meet all of that lovingly. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Don't miss the goodness it's already here.

Don't miss that which you don't need to engineer, strive towards. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. making the object of attention the mind, the affective feeling tonal qualities of our mind, brightness or dullness. Agitation, tranquility, grasping version peace. Just to notice that is enough. Awareness does its own work without you. You're going to see? I'm going to be here. If there's some measure of stability, maybe stability itself becomes more grounded, more open. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to see. The You're going to be here. You're not going to.