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

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Here we go. Great. So hello and welcome everyone. Welcome to Happy hour. Lovely to have you joined from wherever in the world you are joining from what a joy to be with you and and the

hellos at the beginning always give me delight.

Whether you say your name, you bring your voice

into the space, or whether you type them in chat.

Yeah, we're a worldwide saga, very sweet. So many different time zones. So, so for tonight's practice, for today's practice, many time zones, for today's practice, many time zones for today's practice. I'd like to tell you what, have something in mind,

but I'm going to introduce it while we're practicing together just very gently and slowly and I'll say a few words about it afterwards.

So with that, let's together, let's go into silence, start practicing together. So, so arriving,

arriving into your sitting posture.

Whether you're sitting on a chair or a cushion. Feeling your feet on the earth, sit bones.

Feeling your feet on the earth,

feeling your sit bones on the chair,

feeling this body sitting, the sense of presence of this body here.

This body's sitting and breathing,

all these various sensations.

Let them support and ground you.

In every breath. And as you start sitting in this community together, if there's something you need to let go out first,

you need to put down something, some thoughts, some rumination, something from the day,

this residue of emotion perhaps, entanglement with something that has happened today.

Can we put it down just for a moment?

You can pick it up later, but right now, can you put it down?

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