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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org.

Here we go. Great.

So, hello, hello, and welcome everyone to Happy Hour.

Lovely to be together in this moment in time.

And for our practice together, I want to invite us to continue to engage with the practice of compassion.

There can't be enough compassion in the world for ourselves or others,

because there is so much suffering in the world.

But bodies hurt, hearts hurt.

There is unfortunately the continuation of geopolitical situations, so much pain and suffering.

As the Buddha said, greed, hatred, and confusion, not knowing any better, not knowing that harming each other, hating each other doesn't end hatred.

Let's continue with the practice of compassion.

Wherever it's called for, a couple of days ago we started inside and internally and went outside,

and maybe we'll do the same today.

So, with that, I invite you to find a position where your body is comfortable enough in this moment in time.

And if there is discomfort presence, that's okay too. Can we welcome that?

Can we relax, soften with whatever is present in this moment?

I'm inviting our hearts, our minds, our bodies to relax as much as possible.

Relaxing into around what is.

Let's know each other.

And if thoughts are arising in this moment, not a problem, and yet can we relax them too?

Invite them safety, ease, and they rest as we invite this body to rest and collect itself.

...