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

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Just landing in your body's bird lands on the earth. Thank you. just breathing into your body as if to uh deep in the sense of gravity. Thank you. And just as we begin scanning through the hindrances, just to see what's here.

So the two poles of energy of

agitation, restlessness on the one hand,

kind of dullness, sloth, the other,

and the two poles of desire, of wanting, not wanting,

seeking sense pleasure, experiencing aversion, ill will. And doubt. and doubt kind of lack of

kind of lack of confidence in our contact with sensory experience. The Dharma

feeling buried behind layers of fog.

So each of these five we just get a kind of pulse check.

It's okay, whatever you find.

Just bring that into awareness in your finding. day. You know, Thank you. I'm just appreciating how profoundly intolerant we are of unpleasantness.

To be judgmental is just kind of the architecture of our nervous system,

unpleasantness, even quite modest signals to us that something about the universe is off its rails.

Sloth is unpleasant.

Synthesness is unpleasant. restlessness is unpleasant.

Sense longing is unpleasant, ill will is unpleasant, delusion, unpleasant,

unpleasant doubt, unpleasant. and we bear with it.

I'm blessing it with our awareness. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, Pay attention to whatever you feel drawn to pay attention to whatever you feel drawn to pay attention to

maybe the cycles of your breathing

maybe your body more broadly

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