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

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And here we go. Great. So, hello, everyone. Hello and welcome to Happy Hour. Lovely to be with you.

Lovely to practice together. So for today's practice for

tonight's or whatever time zone you are for this moment may not be night where you are. Practice

I'd like to lead a more stilling, more silent, more embodied expression of meta and compassion.

And I'm going to be, yeah, starting with meta, leaning into compassion,

and compassion essentially is when meta, goodwill, friendliness, holds suffering, holds pain,

or any challenge that there might be in the body

or in the heart. So we're going to go back and forth between these two practices. So that's the

plan. And I won't say a whole lot more. We'll just explore and discover as we go. How does that

sound? Let's get settled. Let sound let's uh let's get settled

let's get settled and arrive in our bodies in this moment in time arriving settling and inviting ourselves to first and foremost feel this feeling of sitting here

having your body what does it feel like to be sitting here and having a body?

And can we relax into this body and notice if there are areas of tightness and

holding in this body.

How is the neck?

How are the shoulders? Can we have a sense of kindness about the neck and shoulders and invite them to,

invite them to relax, to release, however much is available.

Or perhaps simply bringing a caring attention to the neck and shoulders.

We don't pay enough attention with care to this body.

How about we?

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