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

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So welcome, folks.

Yeah, I'm glad we can be together this evening.

So, yeah, I'll talk about this moment or how it's, yeah, how it plays out in my heart for whatever that's worth.

But let's sit.

Let's remember what hasn't changed about this practice, even today, day like this. So maybe, uh, you begin just, uh, you begin just kind of gently

just kind of gently massage some part of your body.

It might be as simple as your thumb and your index finger,

gently rubbing against each other. It might be a hand to your belly,

face or just a gentle massage for a gentle massage for leg just to anchor anchor to the subtle pleasantness of that sensation. The I'm The

I'm

The And maybe the warmth of that sensation, that kind of expression of care, sensitivity to your own body.

Maybe that warmth, the warmth of the Sangha, just kind of ripples out, thaws out, whatever may be braced or frozen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Breathe.

Sensing. sensing your breath expanding your breath expanding your belly up into your shoulders

the effects of your breathing on your the back of your body. Thank you. We sort of enliven our body in aligning it.

Inaliening it. Makes more room to feel our way through this moment. Thank you. There's a certain kind of eerie calm that's settled over people.

But when that frozenness thaws out, it's actually just to let the mind get very vast maybe we say recognize asness Thank you. You know, You know, Thank you. You don't need to create to create the vastness.

Doesn't depend on whatever you call me. Thank you. The sense that we arise within space, we arise as space.

We arise as space. Don't fight the solidity within space, certain zones of density, body or feeling. You don't need to melt that down into space.

Stay open. Thank you. You know, Thank you. Maybe it sounds remote in this moment, but we can experience ourselves as a kind of gust of wind.

The world is a gust of wind.

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