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

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Okay. Welcome. Welcome all.

Yeah, nice to see your names. So see if I have any inspiring words to say before sitting. I do not.

But I'm happy to

practice with you.

So, yeah, find your posture. Thank you. Just over time, the months and years, maybe decades.

Just coming into stillness has so many connotations, kind of muscle memory, the muscle memory of Dharma practice. Maybe we touch into some of the tranquility, open-heartedness.

The ways in which our practice is a kind of recollection of that which that which we've always loved. and Thank you. We were laughing. We relax whatever can be relaxed, and whatever can be relaxed.

And whatever tension remains we allow to remain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The sense of self is the kind of locus headquarters for controlling

samsara controlling this realm. And surrender is this gesture of the self laying down.

Always trying to grip experience and then we release. Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. The machinery of thinking and feeling is kind of the...

...the...

...the... It's kind of the tools we use to orchestrate are clinging.

Are feeling Our feeling system sounding, the alarms.

And our words, mental images, visual thinking and auditory thinking,

orchestrate the control. And so in practice we become aware of these dynamics, emotion in our body, mental images, words. We feel our feelings, we feel our feelings, we see our visual thoughts, image of your body or scenes or memory,

image of me.

And we hear our auditory thoughts. Thank you. Rather than using our thinking to control some sorrow, we become awake to it.

And practice laying down, surrender. Thank you. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, We're moving from a life of acquisition and control to the intention simply to be awake.

Ordinarily moment by moment we're forming the kind of ground for action,

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