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

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Great.

So, hello, hello, everyone.

Nice to see you.

Nice to be with you.

So I would like to lead us in a guided meditation with metta, compassion for ourselves, our bodies,

a very quiet, simple meditation tonight, especially given not just what might be

happening in our bodies, but also what's happening in our world, especially if you're in

the U.S. now, it's quite stressful. So it's always a good time to come back to the body,

to come back to self-compassion,

given that we can get quite stressed out, given everything that's going on.

So calming ourselves, settling, so that we can be more available, more calm,

have more equanimity to be with what is happening in the world.

So with that, let's begin practicing.

Let's settle in our bodies.

Excuse me.

Arriving, arriving in our bodies in this moment in time.

And landing, landing in the body here in this moment,

this moment that has never been and will never be.

Hmm. Softening, relaxing the body

and connecting connecting connecting

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