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

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Okay, folks. So welcome.

Nice to see a lot of familiar names.

I'm happy to be practicing together.

So yeah, let's find our posture, whatever that is. Thank you. Let the reality of goodness soothe you, soothe your heart. It's almost unimaginable how much ordinary goodness there is. And we here together,

and we here together, try to take that ordinary goodness as a kind of object that it motivate our action,

consolidate our love, commitment, resolution, aditana. Thank you. Usually we direct our attention to our breathing, to body, to feeling, sound.

Maybe we just let goodness soothe

any agitation, worry, fear, and then see what's left in the mind where the attention goes. Thank you. Thank you. can feel like meditation puts pressure on ourselves

to perform some attentional

ritual to be good to not get lost in thought, to da-da-da-da-da-da.

It's not that meditation puts pressure on the self.

This self puts a kind of pressure on awareness. Thank you. ego

dramatizes everything, maybe makes life feel dramatic dramatic, melodramatic. We just relax, surrender up, the sense of self to awareness. And meditation starts to do itself. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, We must forgive our minds a very deep level. through that process of forgiveness, we come to trust our mind, trust awareness, trust love. Thank you.

The goodness of your mind doesn't depend on you. You know, You know, You know, You know, The more we cling, the more world there is.

Less we cling, the less world.

Less world, but more alive.

Just take our cues from the silence. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Whatever can be enjoyed, enjoyed in the field of your experience, really enjoy it. And if it feels overshadowed by other things, just enjoy what can be enjoyed. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, The

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