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

Please visit our website at audiodderma.org. So taking some fuller breaths, kind of breaths that

uh, reach. kind of breath that soften your belly. Thank you. kind of breaths that signal to the cells of your body that signal to the cells of your body that it's actually okay to relax. You're going to. You're not going to. Sit down into your bones. The head and the heart can be more like air, more like space, but the bones are Earth.

It's a heaviness to them, a groundedness.

So as this instruction goes, sit in your bones. You're going to see? I'm going to be. gentle sense of the downward pull of gravity. in the earth offering itself unwaveringly. And there's a heaviness to the body, but it's not heavy aliveness.

a live nurse. grounded, steady, steady. You're going to be here. You're going to. As the attention may be, as the attention maybe dress upwards,

towards the head, the gaze, the kind of headquarters,

apparent headquarters of visual thinking.

Just keep pouring the attention down into the body and to your bones. as if the awareness emanated from your belly.

As if the awareness emanated from your belly. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. There's a growing stability of rootedness.

Take not on uses the image of a mountain, body-like mountain. You're going to be here. You're going to see. Relax. Relaxation, tranquility, doesn't mean we have to do something means we're invited to stop doing most everything. I'm going to be here. whatever strain or effort doing this, You can relax.

Just relax that. and trust that the awareness that doesn't depend on you, the's going to be a small self you.

That's gonna be enough.

That's beautiful enough.

To stay awake, grounded, sitting in your bones. Radical permission

for life to arise and cease. 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 not going to. because Because the awareness doesn't need you, you, that whirlpool of contraction, that we call me, can relax. You're going to be here. You're going to be here. You're going to be here. You're not going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Although this stability is associated with restfulness, tranquility, peace.

We cannot forget our debt to love. You're not going to Sometimes the body tranquilized breast fall. Restfall.

It's like one drop of love just flavors, the whole space. And the blooming, collapsing, of body sensations becomes a way of radiating,

loving kindness. You're not going to. Sometimes we practice we must. Not because we're inclined to, but because we know we must. You're going to. You're going to be.

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