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

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Meditation is a way of being deeply honest with the moment. And trusting that in meeting the moment as it is the heart unfolds

trusting that the deepest healing does not come from pretending. attending, but from a kind of fidelity to how life is in this moment. And so taking some fuller breaths, breath that reaches down into your belly up into your mind that doubts it,

it's okay to be here like this now. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. in the deep habit of treating the moment as a kind of problem to solve. We just relax. and trust that whatever the raw material of this moment is.

Whether it's pleasant or unpleasant, it all has equal potential to soften our heart to wake us up. So we just relax into our life as it is. through our breathing. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to be here. It's almost like we use our breath to give us the current.

It's almost like we use our breath to give us the courage just to be here. So let your breathing animate the front of your body, but also the back of your body. It feels like life is in front of us, but it's all around us. bringing awareness to the movement of your breathing ripple through not lower half of your body too. You're going to be here. You're going to be here. Our breathing can enliven what is numb doubt and soothe, what's over-activated. So there's a sense of our body being unified by awareness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. To solve our worries we have to think.

but to dissolve them.

we breathe and relax into awareness. fairness. We don't insist that the knots and complexities, the worries and the problems

untangle themselves immediately. and the problems

Untangle themselves immediately but there's a kind of trust that

Our whole life looks different from the vantage point of tranquility, surrender.

So we let our breathing ground us, help us sit more deeply in our bones. Help us appreciate the subtle soothing quality of gravity. You're going to see? You're going to see. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to be here. Maybe some place in your body, your breathing is most prominent,

mouth or nostrils, your chest or belly, maybe a sense of the whole body breathing.

But you can just take refuge in this moment. I'm You're going to be here. You're going to be here. the nature of thought is they all feel somehow important. But we come to trust that there is something even more important than our thoughts. You're going to be here. you're 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're going to. You're going to see. There's a sense no matter how life unfolds, what problems get solved and which don't. This will have mattered.

To have honored the moment in this way.

To have developed a sensory clarity,

kind of refining the landscape of this moment,

stabilizing the heart mind or attention. Resting,

resting from the tassel with experience.

This will have mattered. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. You're going to be here.