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

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Well, hello, everyone. It's so lovely to be with you. I've missed you. I've missed you. I've been teaching.

A.R. retreat teaching. A retreat, a 10-day retreat at Spirit Rock, and it's sweet. It's always sweet to sit with

practitioners, really giving their heart to a period of retreat,

this sense of dedication offering our heart up.

And I was thinking of you.

I was actually sharing this morning in the closing circle,

in the closing ceremony, sharing about

Happy Hour and how really delighted and happy this Sanga makes me.

And whether or not folks who come to Happy Hour, as we know, as you have been coming consistently for a long time,

the transformations, that practicing in this way, in this daily way, this doesn't have to be

a dedicated retreat, as beautiful as that is, and as wonderful as that form is. This is another form.

This is a way to really integrate these heart practices,

beautiful heart practices, into our daily lives. Perhaps you come with a heavy heart or a mind

that's really reeling from what happened today, interpersonally, or the news of the world,

and really the work that we do the practice that we do

day by day by day by day it's it's so heartwarming and astounding the transformations that it has brought about for

for each and every one of us. So I'm very grateful to

this Sangha. So with that in mind, I want to lead a guided meditation tonight for goodwill for

community, goodwill gratitude for community as a resource, as a resource.

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