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

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And here we go. So hello, hello and welcome everyone. Welcome to Happy Hour.

And today, today being the Eclipse Day in Northern America, many people were able to see the complete eclipse, the totality as it's called.

So maybe they'll come into our meditation somehow, whether or not we were able to see the totality of the eclipse, the sun being eclipsed by the moon.

Yeah, that might come into our practice. So tell you what, let's sit together and be surprised to see what arises in the practice of meta and embodiment together so I invite you to arrive to settle. arriving in this moment.

this body. letting go of whatever has happened that has brought us to this moment, maybe it's been busy or

full or challenging or whatever it's been can we release for a moment. Not pushing away, that's a different energy. Not pushing away, but releasing

for a moment to settle. This is a fresh new moment.

How can we embrace this fresh new moment? with our presence, feeling our body is sitting in this moment.

And with our breath. You're not going to see. And can we bring, invite this, this breath?

And can we bring, invite this, this breath? This breath could be just as it is in this moment. You're not going to see? allowing inviting the birth to embrace

this moment of being,

this moment of being,

the freshness of this moment of being, in this freshness of this moment of being.

In this body, in breath, the out breath.

Like a friend.

calming soothing lullaby. You're not going to see. spending another few minutes, cultivating,

cultivating embodiment and presence, feeling the body, feeling the breath,

moving through the body in this moment right here. Right now. You're not going to be here. You're not going to see. You're not going to see? You're not going to see. You're not going to be here. And now, as we are sitting, allowing the breath to move as it does. Can we bring a sense of appreciation in all, the same way that many have reported today, seeing the total eclipse of the sun sense of awe.

In some ways, every moment of experience is awesome, amazing. Amazing. You're going to see? And we for a moment, for a moment, perceive the sensations of the breath in this body, with a sense of the

breath in this body, with a sense of all, awesomeness. You're going to see. You're not going to see. Let yourself play around with this. Perhaps with this sense of awe we noticed something new about the breath.

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