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

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Happy to be with you, happy to be with you happy to be practicing and yeah so that's that's

sit or whatever posture and body's in.

Just take that posture consciously. You're going to be here. Just sensing what it would mean to be grounded in this moment. You're going to be here. I'm And perhaps the spine reaches ever so gently towards the sky.

Then we surrender everything else to gravity. be. You're going to see. We're practicing not being alarmed by Samsara, by this realm of pleasure and pain, gain and loss. you're You're going to see? You're going to be here. We might use our breathing. It's a way of smoothing out the energetic field of our body mind. you're You're going to see. You're going to be here. So. You're going to see? We're practicing putting down the project that we call our life. We're not trying to fix or help things along. Just kind of trusting that as we surrender help is on its way, we don't have to find out. You're going to see? You're going to see? You're going to You're going to be here. It's just getting so simple. fall.

It's this body breathing. Silence. Silence, beckoning us. You're going to see? Help is on its way. It doesn't require you, your willfulness. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to The phenomena arise, arise fears, arise thoughts, arise. They become intimidated by them, by what they might mean.

And so we freeze time and we try to make meaning.

Try to reassure ourselves.

It's fair enough. But we are practicing, knowing all phenomena is empty. You're going to be here. An experience becomes so vivid, but highly attenuated, wispy, space-like, space like so there and barely there. You're going to see? You're going to see? If all we ever do is try to fix our self,

we will never know our self. know ourselves. You're not going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Maybe we can say the anchor, silence, and every bit of noise is met

with internet patients. nations. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to be. You're going to be here. You're going to.