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

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So relaxing, whatever can be relaxed. Everything that can be relaxed, we relax. Whatever tension remains, we give complete blessing to remain. Thank you. You know, Thank you. And if anything's tight or hurts in your body,

just remaining in the flow of meditation in your body,

just remaining in the flow of meditation,

but go ahead and gently massage

wherever there's tightness,

pain. pain pain And since the way that

the way that kindness is manifest in that gesture,

certain expression of loving care. I'm just feeling the transmission of that care,

perhaps from your hand to your body.

Find ourselves in this lineage of love and care.

Same gesture of kindness,

manifested a million ways, a million times,

over millennia. I wish to be free of suffering is the kind of animating theme of history.

It's just that generally people don't understand happiness well enough.

But we're learning here on our cushions, our seats, in our beds.

Learning about our nervous system and about this realm of experience,

samsara. learning about what's worthy of our reverence and protection and where we can let go. Thank you. Our worries will not stop until we stop.

So we sent into the flow of breathing, but something in us stops. Thank you. You know, You know, Instinctively, we place so much hope to a future that never exactly comes you So we renounce the protection and acquisitiveness, ownership, the control. We refine our relationship with helplessness.

And in this way, cultivate our power. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. Our attention is usually a kind of appendage of our wanting and our fear.

But we can't fool Mother Nature. We have to let go to receive this moment. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, You know, You know, Thank you. And when it, um, those times it doesn't work, maybe nothing works.

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