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

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Okay.

So welcome folks.

Nice to see your names.

And yeah, let's practice together. Thank you. So finding your posture, whatever posture it is, a sense of your heart being open to the world.

A sense of sanctity and relaxation. We know we're doing something, maybe we're doing something. Maybe we say sacred and ordinary and we can relax amidst it. Thank you. Just breathing into your belly.

Maybe a slightly fuller or slower slower breath than you've taken today. Thank you. meditation can feel old hat or familiar especially if you've practiced for years or decades.

But we ought not forget that we're stepping into something sacred,

that we're connected by our breath and our sincerity

to a 2,600 year lineage, home, online. Now that's not the end of the story.

We take our seat and remember the lineage.

All the shoulders we stand upon.

All that we owe to those who will come after us.

And we breathe with that. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, Thank you. So practice of reverence, also renunciation.

In other words, what is skillful to put down.

Renunciation is not animated, sponsored by aversion,

uh, aversion, moralism.

That's sponsored by the egoic processes, but a simple recognition.

This can be put down. Perhaps we renounce the multitasking of our mind,

or we renounce some measure of worry, other grasping.

We renounce the false promises make story out of this moment. We have sense contact and the proliferation, largely a function of the lack of equanimity feels like I must tell some story, maybe just a

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