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

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All right, so hello, hello, everyone. It's lovely to be back.

Well, back where in some ways we never leave the present moment and where we are, which is, can

get into interesting philosophical quandaries, but back in California, back with you sitting,

leading happy hour.

So, for the theme of our practice today, this is what I was thinking about practicing together offering, and that is what if we consider the practice of meta,

practice of goodwill, practice of cultivating love, kindness, goodness, brightness, of heart and mind, not so much as an activity, not so much as a

much as a doing something that we do.

Again sometimes that's appropriate.

There are different times at different ways of approaching the practice

feel appropriate.

But how about for today's practice?

We consider this practice of meta cultivating our hearts or minds and this bright goodness of loving and being loved as a complete relaxation,

as a complete worked in the

hot sun all day and for most of you in the northern hemisphere right now it's it's

summer so you can feel into the heat and Marie Christine in Australia I know it's

it's cool now, but you know, play along.

We can imagine what it's like to be in the summer.

It's hot, you worked, and it's been hot and you know you're and now you just want to

uh sit in the cool shade of a tree maybe even dip into a lake and just cool off

maybe you've been stressed and Maybe you've been stressed and you've been sweating and you just

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