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

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Just set yourself up as right as you can, meaning comfortable. comfortable, maybe even cozy. Alert. You're going to be clinging.

Can feel neglectful to stop worrying.

worrying.

as if it's our vigilance that keeps us safe. Maybe it can feel like a voidant to relax into tranquility. But our agitation and vigilance clinging does less for our life than we imagine. And so, give ourselves permission to relax. you're You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Just let your breathing fill out your body.

It feels like life is in front of us, but life's everywhere.

So we breathe and sense the sensations of breathing in the back of our body. you. You're going to be here. And breathe some life into these zones of numbness, the areas of your body habitually neglected, forgotten.

I'm so familiar with my chest, but much less so with my belly. So you unify your body with the breathing, breathing into the the zones of flatness or numbness. You're going to. You're going to. So we breathe into the cold places but also the hot places, the intensity. The intensity is and the swirls of energy are hyper arousal. I'm It's the gentle soothing quality of breathing

that unifies our body. Our body feels suspended in awareness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're not going to be here. Perhaps with our body is suspended in awareness.

May feel skillful to turn the mind to

to compassion.

Beginning with the gentle tending to your own suffering. Just here in this moment, wherever there is

is sorrow or rage or fear. tend lovingly to it. I'm going to Okay. You're going to see? You're going to be here. in the gesture of compassion, we're becoming unintiminated by our pain.

Yeah, of course, it hurts.

Maybe it hurts a lot.

compassion is here. And so you're infusing.

And so you're infusing that struggle and dishease, infusing it,

and dishease, infusing it with this particular species of love.

The love that tends and heals heartache. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. I'm I can. I care about my pain. And you're after words.

They, I be free from suffering.

at ease.

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