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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So good morning, day.

day. Today, and in some ways some of us are here today to befriend our bodies,

to become intimate with our bodies,

to not treat our bodies as something foreign to us,

something that we take for granted and use to kind of do the things that the mind wants to do, the self wants to do,

an object of transport to reconcile or heal our relationship to the body.

So it's not something to be aversive to or angry to or

or or

ashamed of or all kinds of difficulties that people have with their bodies. But to have a healed relationship with the body, so there's no wound wound between you and your body. There's no fear of the body, no shame of the body, no anger, no ignoring of it.

And one of the ways to do this

is to listen to the body deeply as if the body has a voice, as if the body has an expression

that wants to be known, to treat the body with tremendous respect,

with care, with love, It too wants to be known. And maybe that's a little bit my own kind of language

for that.

But something profound happens

when we make room in awareness

for the body to be itself and to know the body from the inside

out. From the outside in we could treat the body as an object and then we can have all these

relationships to that object that thing the body but to treat the body or care for the body as a subject from the inside out, not from the

ideas, the memories, the histories, the standards we judge it by.

But from the inside out,

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