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

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There, great. So hello and welcome everyone to Happy Hours, lovely to see you.

And as I was just saying before I turned on the recording, it's lovely to, yeah,

I hear different voices from different places in the world as we say hi and greet one another just sense of common humanity sharing our

goodwill and warmth with one another so so for today's practice, I'd like to invite the, as part of today's practice engaging the heart, cultivating goodness as a way to celebrate goodness,

celebrate goodness in ourselves,

celebrate goodness in others,

as a way to resource ourselves, to find grounding, stability,

as a way to be of more support and service

to ourselves and thereby more available to support others.

So that might seem like, what is she talking about?

You know, maybe I'll just pause, maybe I'll just leave the guided meditation at the end. I'll tell you the arc that we followed because I don't want it to get too heading, but actually really practical for our practice. So let go of everything I said and let's just practice together.

Let's just practice together. So, arriving, arriving in our bodies and if you need to shift and move to find the center of your gravity for your body, you need to move from a chair to a

cushion, etc. This is a good time.

And then arriving.

Arriving. And this body. and this moment in time. allowing yourself to feel your feet, kissing the earth. Feeling your sit bones on the cushion, on the chair, your hands touching one another or your

laugh.

Turning your gaze internal inward feeling, seeing, of these touch points, your sit bones, your feet, and your hands. What does it mean to relax your body?

Allow your weight to be offered, release to your sit bones.

What does that feel like to offer the weight of your whole body to your feet and relax into your feet. Explore what it means to relax your body, especially your upper body, into the sensation of your hands.

Your hands to be relaxed, soft, heavy.

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