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

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Oh, great. Okay. So hello again. Hello. Welcome to the happy hour. So, so for today's practice, I want to invite us to, yeah, to pause, to pause.

So maybe the title of this of today's practice is in praise of pause, in praise of pause,

so. in praise of pause. So, maybe I won't say too much about our practice before we get into it.

I'll say more later. Maybe that's enough right now. So let's begin. Let's begin landing in your body.

Arriving, arriving together, arriving.

With wholehearted intention, with kind intention.

For ourselves, for others.

Taking a pause from the busyness, from the distractedness, from switching channels, this channel and that channel and this other channel, taking

a pause from all that, taking a wholesome pause.

Hmm, and resting, arriving in this body.

arriving in this moment in time. You're not going to see. and inviting the body to relax and soften. Inviting the heart,

the body and the mind to take a pause.

A kind pause,

a pause of kindness. You're not going to see. You're going to see. If thoughts are arising and passing, it's okay, let them come and go.

Put your body and hard to rest with the pause.

We don't have to follow after every thought that comes up, every memory.

Perhaps imagine that you're sitting in a comfortable chair, very comfortable chair in the middle of, say, a cabin, the middle of nature.

And all around this cabin there are doors and windows.

And little animals, birds show up, say hi.

And then leave.

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