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

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Hello and welcome again everyone to happy hour. It's lovely to see you lovely to be

back with you as traveling and and teaching so it's lovely to be back so for tonight's or this

morning's a theme or you know for those of you from different time zones, today's theme, I'd like to talk about

and guide a meditation on seeing with our hearts, seeing with our hearts.

This metaphor of seeing, we, of course there is the literal seeing when we see things with our eyes and then

there is a different kind of seeing that relates to insight, seeing with our hearts,

this different way of perceiving, especially when it comes to practicing meta and loving kindness, compassion, these practices of the heart

for us to see differently, not to just see from our analytical perspective which is very helpful and we get we get lots of things

done in the world but it also can get us into problems and into tight spaces of feeling tight.

And instead, what if we saw, what if really perceived with our hearts?

Not to say that we also don't perceive with our senses, but this idea of trying this on for size, trying on for size, seeing, seeing with our hearts, a different way of seeing shifting perspective. So that's the idea I want to

invite you to try on for size and see how it might work or not. It's all good. Cultivating these cultivation practices are all

experiments that we take on and we see what supports us. So I think that's enough as a setting of the the as a pro-log as a proscript anyway the thing that comes before the main thing, that.

So let's settle, let's settle.

Let's settle.

Let's settle, settle in our bodies. And if you need to move or shift to get comfortable either in

place or moving from the chair to cushion or the other way around and also moving maybe left or right as you're sitting finding your center, finding the center of your sit bones and really taking a moment or two to just arrive,

maybe rolling your shoulders back, seeing what this body needs to be comfortable.

It's important to be comfortable when you are settled, then settling, settling,

settling arriving, landing. Looking a few few breaths just settle.

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