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

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Oh, great. So hello again everyone and welcome to Happy Hour. So I thought for today's practice to do a pretty simple,

simple meta slash compassion practice.

So,

Anything I want to say about that. Yeah, maybe what I want to say is,

is, um, is paying attention is an act of care.

So whether we're paying attention internally, externally, instead of turning away, it is an act of

meta and it's an act of method to ourselves

and also it's an act of method or object of attention to be with it, to be with it, to not turn around, to deny not to push away but just to be with it as

gently as we can as gently as spaciously as possible. So we can be quite lightweight, it can be a non-doing-doing

the practice of meta and compassion.

Sometimes they're more active, they're more engaged,

and sometimes it can be quite a light touch, a very, very light touch.

So tonight I want to invite us to go for the light touch.

So that... for the light touch. So with that, let's land in our bodies. You're not going to see. letting the body relax inviting the body. to be just as it is.

And is it possible to invite this body to relax a little more, a heart to relax,

soften?

There might be challenges, difficulties in the body, in the mind and the heart, heaviness.

And can we relax around it all? Can we relax around.

And we relax around it all. it is weighty.

Yes, it is weighty. This body could be weighty, whatever is happening, could be weighty, not to take that away, but... And we also tune into the lightness.

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