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

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So good morning folks, happy birthday Mary, 75th birthday, one of our song of

friends here.

So yeah, please settle in and let's see what happens. You're not going to see. Just a Settling into posture into posture you can say yes to, making whatever adjustments you need. You're not going to see. You're not going to see. There's some gratitude just for being alive here together, conscious. You're not going to see. You're not going to be here. You're not going to see. Incredible number of things have to go right for us to be aware. Of course it won't always be like this.

So we kind of, uh,

rejoice. Rejoice in awareness as we begin here together. 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 see. You're going to see. There's effort in practice.

Kind of subtle effort of kind of

directing attention preferentially

to the breath.

To the breath,

body feeling, the mind. the effort of letting things be amidst imperfection. choosing not to fiddle with some sara. You're not going to see. But we also want to attune to what is effortless, what requires nothing of us doesn't create a sense of a burden on the meditating self. You're going going to be here. So there is an aspect of awareness that doesn't depend on you. Can't be.

be. can't be initiated by an act of will,

nor can be stopped. But when we are in fact aware,

can appreciate the effortlessness of it that this doesn't actually burn any attentional calories. Just awake. because it doesn't depend on you, whatever you think you is. You can completely take your hands off all the levers and knobs. You're not going to see? 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. Because this dimension of awareness doesn't depend on you, you, whatever you is, can completely relax. You're going to see. That's a little like the awareness blooms and collapses.

collapses into an object,

into a thought. And then come to appreciate mindfulness as a certain kind of grace. You're going to see. We come to witness a process that

does not involve our willfulness.

Sense the limitations of our willfulness.

It's a time or effort. for it. and this dimension of effortlessness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Whatever you can't stop, rest. Rest there.

The awareness that you can't stop.

Rest. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be here. You're going to.

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