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

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You Dharma, here we go.

Great, beautiful.

So hello and welcome everyone to this edition of Happy Hour.

So, for today's practice, I want to invite us to befriend our mind, befriend our mind, befriend our mind, befriend our mind.

Sometimes it seems like we're not so friendly with our minds, our minds run around thinking about past and future and causing trouble

and then we are not so friendly with our mind, we're in a little battle with our mind.

So what if we were actually befriend our mind?

And I want to offer a couple of metaphors.

One is one that I've used before is the idea of a puppy, a little puppy that runs around and just being a puppy.

It's being a puppy, being a puppy is the nature of mind to think about the past, future, etc.

Another metaphor actually is the two are similar and like little kittens, you know, little kittens are cute and they get into trouble.

You know, they can make a mess, they can make noise, it's not that, you know, it's their nature.

And also there are so many causes and conditions about being a kitten, being curious, being interested, being playful, and the cause and conditions of kittensness, such as being a kitty or being a little puppy dog.

And our minds, we take them so personally, we take them every, we take everything, we take every thought, we take every, every thought, every emotion, everything so personally.

What if the same way that we had the sense of kindness, friendliness, just what we laugh, maybe, you know, the little kittens are making a mess, you know, in the kitchen.

But we kind of laugh like they're cute and this is the way to be a kitten.

And we don't take it so personally, right?

This is what if we had the same perspective, we took the same perspective with our minds, befriended our minds, a sense of metas, sense of kindness with our minds, maybe our minds are grumpy,

okay, grumpy mind, okay, grumpy mind, instead of okay, I'm grumpy, like, or whatever else is alright.

Can we have just a little bit of ease?

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