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

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Okay, here we go.

All right, so, hello and welcome to Happy Hour.

So, for today's theme of practice,

I'd like to invite us to consider a starting, starting with meta,

with kindness, loving kindness for ourselves, for this body,

and then spreading it outward, spreading it outward,

but we start from ourselves.

And if you've been coming to Happy Hour for a while,

you know that we always start.

We tend to start by filling our own cup.

And then we share, then we spread, we shift,

we take on the perspective of kindness, care,

not just for this being, for that is me,

but for all beings everywhere.

So, that's going to be the progression.

And whatever arises, as long as you are kind,

as long as you make space for whatever arises,

you're doing this practice right.

Whatever arises, as long as you are kind.

If it's pain in the body,

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