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

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Okay. Okay, welcome, welcome folks, lovely to see all the names. Yeah, so let's sit together. You're not going to see. Just maybe touching into the goodness in that chat this global sanga circle of goodwill. Goodwill. You're not going to see. It's extremely fortunate that one might ever know

Darma Love. love extremely. You're not going to see. Just to breathe and land in your body. Think whatever thoughts or feel whatever feelings need to be thought or felt in order for you to become

available to the majesty of this moment. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. I'm going to directing attention to the feeling circuits of your body, kind of building blocks of mood and emotion, state of affect of arousal, often along the front axis of your body, face, throat, chest belly.

But an affective feeling state might cover the entirety of your body. Maybe relatively stable or flowing,

or pleasant,

pleasant or unpleasant.

Maybe subtle or intense. But feeling encodes a certain kind of motivation,

intentionality, moving towards away. And one of the capacities we cultivate in meditation practice is to let feeling

and to renounce the the ways we narrate feeling, find an object, or a feeling.

The ways our longing finds an object.

The ways our aversion finds an object, the ways that our body experience kind of blossoms into a feeling thought loop. And so here we practice,

feeling. feeling without the consolation of narrative. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. narrating or feeling life.

Staying oriented To threat an opportunity.

a very natural thing to do. It keeps us feeling more secure. So to gently renounce the narrative, the attempt to read the tea leaves of our feeling body. feels vulnerable, exposed. You're going to see? And so it's natural for us to continually act out our hypervigilance. You're not going to see. What is this feeling? What does it mean? What do I want? What must I avoid? You're not going to see. But maybe maybe feels okay to okay to experiment with defenselessness. You're not going to see. Knowing feeling is feeling. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to. to feel,

to be mindful of feeling is to feel feeling.

To do this, begins to do this, begins to soften the compulsive energies that usually come along with the feeling feeling narrative cluster

the ways that that feeling when met unconsciously

creates a kind of imperative, a command. No. No, we're not trying to listen for the command, but just feel in this way we begin to soften something. saying. begin to open to the possibility that nothing needs to happen right now. that we'd be okay if nothing whatsoever happened. 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 not going to see. This way we learn to distill out the wisdom or body from its compulsivity. This helps us live well. You're going to. You're going to be. You're going to. You're not going to.