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

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So hello and welcome, everyone, and welcome to this edition of Happy Hour.

Lovely to see you.

New faces, yay, you've discovered Happy Hour, you're here in person. lovely to see you new faces

yay you've discovered happy hour

you're here in person

how lovely is that

and some

familiar faces

so I would like to invite us

to practice together and the theme will be forthcoming,

will be discovered as we sit together.

So let's land, let's arrive, let's settle first and foremost in our bodies.

Always starting with settling in the body, settling in the felt sense of being here.

Checking in with the

posture, is it

upright, does it have a sense of integrity?

Whether you're sitting, lying down, standing, doesn't have a sense of integrity.

With arms and hands, with legs being uncrossed, with the back being straight.

And if you're sitting in a chair, the sense that you're being

pulled up by an invisible string, vertebrae by vertebrae. And yet letting the soft tissue of your body

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