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

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To fully contact our heart we often need to relax. Thank you. You're going to be here. If you're sleepy, if it's late, can still actually relax, but counterbalancing the relaxation with a certain kind of

if you're sitting expression of your spine reaching upwards towards the sky. You're going to be here. Maybe take some fuller breaths.

It's kind of filling out your body with your breath. You're going to be here. I'm going to And we breathe and relax so that we might become more sensitive to love. kind of love that spreads. You're going to see? The more settled and still we become the easier the awareness takes the hue of love kindness. I'm going to So, this. No contracts with the moment just offering your heart mind up to it. You're going to The posture of our heart is one where no matter what comes its way, pleasure or pain.

pain.

we trust that it will become love. Can you put your heart in that posture? So, You're going to be here. You're going to see? Just breathing into your heart center. Kind of deep willingness to feel our life as it's constellating in this moment,

it's joy and sorrow. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. You're going to see? We sense the the the piece. since the pain's

knots in our life, the knots in our heart. And practice bathing them and care, kindness. Sometimes harder to believe from the inside, but you're no different than any other person and pain is worthy of care, kindness. You're going to. You're going to. Maybe there's an image or word, a phrase that kind of catches the thread of your breathing.

So letting your heart soften, be softened by life. You're going to. You're going to. It's almost like our breathing.

It's almost like our breathing

refines out some of the

holding and pushing,

so that love catches the thread of our breath. Maybe starts to feel natural to intone

the words. That'd be here. May my heart be as wide as the world.

my heart be as wide as the world. May I take refuge in love. I'm going to is abiding in care. You're going to. You're going to. The attention wanders meanders away from this theme of love, just forgive yourself. Just reestablish yourself in this abiding.

This abiding. Like all the cells of your body become. and become animated by non-violence. The heart becomes aligned. Because it has no faith in hate or apathy, we go.

We go maybe just for this minute. We go all in and love.

Don't worry about the details of life right now, just now.

It's okay. In fact very good to go all in love, kindness and passion. 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. You know we know it can never be.

Still makes a lot of sense to affirm the wish.

May all beings be well.

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