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

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There we go. So, hello, everyone. Hello, and welcome to Happy Hour.

Lovely to be with you, dear Sangha, it makes me happy to see you and for today's practice

i'd like to invite us to excuse me tickle in my throat i'd like to invite us to sit with,

um,

with embodiment tonight.

And with,

with trusting that embodiment coming to our bodies,

bringing the awareness,

bringing,

knowing to our bodies to the breath,

can bring, can cause, can bring forth a sense of stability and resilience.

I've mentioned this before that often we find ourselves being overwhelmed by thoughts, by fears, by future-oriented reflections, and we become like top- heavy blow-up dolls.

I probably have mentioned this before here,

but I love this simile of a pop-up doll.

These pop-up dolls, you might have seen them,

that they have sand on the bottom.

And if they fall down, whoop, they stand up again because they have sand on the bottom.

So if you have mindfulness of the body, the sense of resilience here, here, here, together with kindness and compassion, sweetheart, here, here.

There can be a sense of stability as the storms of fortune, as the storms of the world come and go. There can be a sense of stability here,

here. I can withstand this. I can withstand this. But if the sand is on the top, top heavy, and we get

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