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.

Lovely to see you. Lovely to be with you.

In this moment in time, whatever time zone, whether you're in Thailand,

it's 8 a.m., or here in Hawaii, or West Coast East Coast, just lovely.

I just love the hellos that we have at the beginning.

It just warms my heart when the sun dies, samples, and we all say hello.

So with that, the sense of being together, or being here, being here in this moment in time,

being here in this moment in time.

So what I'd like to invite us to practice with today.

Thanks, Amy. Amy says it's 3 p.m., yes, your time, Amy, in Hawaii.

So whatever the time zone is, and being here in this moment in time,

in this moment in time, the sense of presence, to practice with

the joy of being here, being here and now,

and tuning into the joy of being here and now, exactly as it is.

As one of the Brahma Vihara's, the four heavenly

abodes, the four practices of the heart,

meta-loving kind is being the first one, compassion, the second one,

vicarious joy or sympathetic joy being the third one, equanimity, the fourth one.

The practice of joy, sympathetic joy, this delight, joy,

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