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

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Hello everyone and warm greetings on this Monday morning and And so today the guided meditation will be around tranquility and calm and the idea being that when we let go what we relax when we

stop our clinging, releasing our attachments.

One of the signs of that,

one of the consequences of that,

is some degree of tranquility,

some degree of calm or peace or ease or lightness

of lightning up.

And this is one thing to let go.

It's another thing to appreciate the consequences of letting go.

It's one thing to have compulsion, addiction, be caught up in something.

It is something else to become aware of beyond the edges of the

attachment there is some modicum of tranquility, of peace, serenity, ease, calm. I use all these different words because different people resonate with different words.

So in this meditation, I'll guide you a bit to appreciate the calm that's there or the peace or the degree of tranquility which is there when we're not

attached, not clinging to something. And sometimes that calm is the calm of recognizing an absence.

In the absence of agitation, in the absence of clinging.

They're right there in that sense of absence,

there is a hint of serenity of peace. So assuming a meditation posture, And gently closing your eyes.

And gently closing your eyes. And gently, maybe slowly as if you have all the time in the world, take a comfortably deeper

breath than usual.

And let go, release, exhale, longer than usual but only to the degree which is comfortable to do so.

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