Guided Meditation: Vitality and Release, In Breath, Out Breath

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🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This talk was given by Matthew Brensilver on 2024.11.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/_JLTF6-fUpk. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.0	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:09.0	Okay, welcome folks. Welcome to you all.
0:18.0	Good to be with you.
0:21.6	Good to come back and practice kind of just the rhythms of a weekly thing.
0:28.6	Just, okay, check in with our heart now.
0:32.6	How is it to be alive now. So a friend of mine, Dharma friend, a fellow teacher, said something like,
0:51.3	she's very direct with me, and she's always right, so she can kind of say whatever.
0:58.7	But she said, some people like the in-breath, some people like the out-breath.
1:08.5	You like the in-breath.
1:14.1	What does that mean? I thought I liked the out-breath. I thought I liked relaxation. I thought I liked
1:19.6	tranquility. I thought I liked non-vigilance. But she said, no there's some
1:28.3	you like the intensity you know
1:33.2	and there's some part of you that's very ambivalent
1:38.1	about actually relaxing at a deep level
1:42.2	kind of took that in.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.5	Maybe.
1:50.4	So what's maturity in practice?
1:53.5	I think it's coming to love the in breath and the out breath.
2:00.0	The kind of vitalizing energy, intensity of the in-breath,
2:06.6	and the soothing, surrender, ease of the out-breath, no control.
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