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

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Oh, great. Okay. So hello, everyone, hello and welcome to Happier. It's lovely to be with

you in this moment in time.

And I'm going to start leading the guided meditation without a darmet ahead of time. I'll say more about it afterwards. So we'll just

lead us and let's see where we end up. So on some topic about meta and loving kindness and and it's related

practices so not veering off too far so I like to invite you to settle in your seat in your chair wherever you're sitting or standing or

lying down if that's comfortable for you.

Ah, and taking a moment, really to arrive.

Drive in your body. You're not going to see. arrive with the sacredness of this moment of being alive.

Whatever has happened before, whatever's happening in this moment, letting go, releasing.

I'm just landing with the simplicity, with the simplicity. simplicity of this simplicity of this body breathing, this miracle of this body breathing, letting

go of thoughts, plants, stories, me, me, me, what I got done, what I didn't get done,

what they said, what I said, let go, let go, let go, oh dear mind, dear heart, it's endless, it's endless. But we can put it down and take refuge.

So let's put it down together and take refuge. A moment of deep rest can only really rest, deeply rest when we put down. all the word

rigmarole of the stories.

In Polly the word is papanja,

just proliferation. In Polly, the word is Papancha,

just proliferation of the mind.

Proliferation.

Putting it down, putting it all down,

deep pressed. it all down, depressed. And if you noticed the mind has picked it up again. Put it down again,

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