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

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Here we go. Great, fantastic. So hello and welcome everyone. It's lovely to see you.

Sweet to sit with you. So, hmm. So for today's practice I want to yeah explore explore Yeah, explore, explore an imagery with you in the way of practicing.

And yeah, so I think we'll practicing and

I think what I like to do is just to invite you to to enter the space

it's an exploration of of awakening

awakening wisdom and compassion and and really the marriage of wisdom and

compassion which is equanimity, sense of spaciousness. So we can

think of wisdom as as the sun. There's a sense of ah brightness of mind being luminous right with wisdom

arising and dispelling delusion doubt everything that's not helpful, and compassion being the stability, the

spaciousness, that this vastness that holds everything really this combination this nexus of of the brightness of wisdom and the spaciousness of compassion is what I like to invite us to explore day in the guided

meditation. So how does that sound? I hope I hope good enough so let's begin

Let's begin as always in our bodies. Let's begin by settling in.

Ah, settling in in this moment in time.

Ah, letting go.

Letting go of whatever preoccupations you might have had up to this moment.

We can pick it up, we can pick all of it up in a little bit. Of course we'll pick it up we can pick all of it up in a little bit of course we'll pick it up no problem but right now

for the sake of our practice together for the sake of this training, or the sake of training our hearts and minds in goodness, spaciousness, kindness,

spaciousness, kindness,

awesomeness, we put them down.

We release them.

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