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

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Great, so hello, hello and good morning, afternoon, evening, whatever time zone you might be in.

Lovely to join you, to be with you dear Sanga coming together to practice together.

So, so maybe what I want to say is so the practice of loving kindness meta is also practiced as a not just the cultivation of the heart practice but also it is practiced to

calm the mind calm the heart calm and center the heart and mind.

In that practice, you might have heard of it

as the practice of concentration.

Not my favorite translation of the word Samadi.

Samadi being gathering, collecting.

So that's a better translation for somebody.

Collecting, gathering the heart of mind. Collecting, and it can be a very calming, soothing,

settling practice and given that it's a meta loving kindness practice, it can also have warmth, this engagement of the heart that is settled and warm and caring. So I wanted to invite us to tune into that aspect of Meta together,

and it's calming, collecting the mind aspect of it today in our practice.

So many ways to practice Meta and today this would be the invitation.

So I think that's enough for setting the frame.

So with that I want to invite you to get comfortable in your seat if you need to move and shift or may cushion to a chair chair to a

cushion if you're sitting maybe you're roll your shoulders back a couple of times.

Ah, settling in your seat.

So that your spine is upright has a sense of integrity

and inviting your body to settle to relax,

to really land

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