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

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Here we go.

Hello, everyone.

Hello, and welcome to Happy Hour.

Lovely to see you, lovely to be with you in this space. And as you've noticed,

I've been teaching this whole week because Liz has been away on retreat. So I've got to,

the opportunity to the joy to be with you almost every night.

Not tomorrow, though.

Bruni will be teaching tomorrow.

So, anyway.

So for today, I'd like to continue with the theme of this week.

The theme of this week has been equanimity for obvious reasons,

because it's been a very busy week with lots of news and tumultuousness, no matter which side

you're on, it's been busy and full and exciting. So times like, or exciting one way or the other anyway, I'm going to just leave that.

You know, the Vedana, the feeling tone might be positive or negative.

But regardless, equanimity is the practice for times like this, equanimity, establishing

ourselves in groundedness, in uprightness, in calm, in neither being pushed away,

nor being dragged into a sense of, yeah, equipise. That's another alternative translation of Opeca. Opeca often translate as equanimity, equipoies, calm balance. Balance also. Another very helpful translation.

So I'd like to continue this week with equanimity practice.

And of course, we can do these practices in so many different ways.

In the past few nights, I've, starting Monday night, I entered it in a different way, similarly Tuesday and Wednesday

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