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

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So welcome all. Good morning to most of you.

So some folks requested an opportunity to connect with each other.

So we decided to just offer a short Zoom session where can have breakout groups or say hello to each other with some faces.

So that will be tomorrow at 8 a.m. Pacific.

And I put the link in the YouTube description. It's also posted at Matthew

brunsilver.org on the first page, you'll see the link to the Zoom. And yeah, that's just an

opportunity to connect with, you know, connect with some faces and be together.

So tomorrow at 8 a.m., totally optional, of course. Yeah. Thanks, Cindy, for facilitating that.

Yeah, and I'll be there and can answer any questions or something, but it's really kind of sangha focused.

Okay, welcome.

Welcome Salt Spring.

That's a nice island.

All right.

Let's meditate. Thank you. You know, Thank you. Just enjoying the stillness. It was pouring. Just pouring your awareness into your body.

Making your body bright, vibrant, awareness. You know, You know, It's a sense of deep kindness towards all conditioning.

The uncountable, unknowable forces that have birthed this moment in its joy and sorrow. Inordinarily, we focus on

on the effects of that which we seem to have controlled, others seem to have

controlled, we have focus on that which is conscious.

But there are so many forces that have come to shape this moment that we cannot even see. The that we can bow to our conditioning as a...

It's an animal with an evolutionary history. It's an earthling with a home. The Maybe this is a way of saying we come to... Forgive history.

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