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

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Okay, here we go.

Okay, so welcome, welcome everyone, welcome to happier, lovely to see you all

and lovely to be with you, feel your presence from around the country and the world.

So for today's practice, I wanted to bring in a sense of the patience as meta, patience as meta,

patience with ourselves, patience with others, patience with this body, patience and kindness

with causes and conditions, not being what we want them to be, patience with our

to-do list, patience, patience, patience, patience can be such a beautiful practice.

It's a really an aspect, an expression of love.

And again, to have discernment, patience is not just, oh, postponing and procrastinating,

it's not patience, but there is a wholeheartedness, there is a kindness, there is a gentleness

to appreciating when it's appropriate to have patience and when it's appropriate to lean in

and not impatience, but of course holding ourselves or others accountable.

So, and that is the role of wisdom because compassion and kindness without wisdom

become what Tibetans like to call idiot compassion or idiot kindness.

So, so in that way, what is the appropriate expression of patience as kindness, as love,

as meta for ourselves and for others without rearing into enabling and unhealthy enabling.

So, I leave that as a little contemplation and guided meditation, I lead us to explore that a little bit.

So, let's begin, let's land in our seats, let's arrive here.

Here, here, in this moment, in this moment in time, in this body.

Starting with patience, with this body, with this mind, the body might still be settling,

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