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

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Hi folks, welcome.

Yeah, good to be with you. I guess we meditate. So, yeah, let's find a posture that balances relaxation, alertness.

If you're tired, err on the alert side, if you're ramped up, err on the relax side. And, yeah, just gently find your way into a

Darma posture, your body, but also your

darma heart. You're going to. You're So just see, see if there's something especially entangling left over from the day.

the week, the year. You're going to be here. Just appreciate what that is, what that is, maybe you even give it a moment to think through so long as you don't

get more deeply entangled. Thank you. Maybe it feels important to just feel the presence of whatever is left over as the fingerprint it leaves in your emotional body. You're going to be here. Just give your blessing to those, that affective arousal, give your blessing to see. You're going to be here. We're We give our blessing to everything so we can put it all down. You're going to be here. You're going to see? And maybe you really notice the end of few exhalations. You're going to be here. Maybe you listen out for the most faint distance sound in your sound

scape. Maybe you don't even know if you're hearing a sound or silence. and it's. You're not going to see? You're going to see what skillful way of attending to vitalize the mind,

tranquilize our body. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to. Thank you. Grade is.

tension. hatred, aversion, attention. Self is tension, at all's tension. And so we relax. You're going to be here. You're going to be here. You can't exactly relax through more willfulness. Thank you. We relax the way we exhale. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. There's a certain measure of faith required to relinquish. Relinguish, control. I'm to stop trying to engineer, to stop trying to solve the riddle of our life by the moment. You're going to be here. Don't look for any foothold in Samsara. You're going to be here. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to see? You're going to be here. Thank you. You're going to be here. You're going to see. Just breathing into the space called me, mine relaxing. You're going to be here. Thank you. You're going to see? You're going to be here. You're not going to. When we command ourselves to relax, it's just a kind of

reiteration of the willfulness.

Maybe it's kind of the same for falling awake. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to. Your ground is just openness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to see. The You're going to be here. You're going to.