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

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Here we go. Great. So hello, everyone. Hello and welcome to this edition of Happy Hour.

So for today's practice, I'd like to guide us into a spacious and, yeah, a metafilled practice that has a lot of silence in it.

And maybe I won't say so much ahead of time.

And I'll say a little more.

I'll give the Darmet instead of giving the Darmid before.

I'll give it afterwards.

So let's sit. Let's practice together. Let's arrive. Let's arrive first and foremost in our bodies, settling, whether you're sitting or standing or lying down, whatever is appropriate for your body right now.

Taking stock, taking stock of how this body is in this moment in time.

And if there are any adjustments needed to be more comfortable,

please make the adjustments now.

Taking time to really settle.

To settle into your posture.

And perhaps even roll your shoulders back a couple of times, open your chest, letting your hand settle on your on your lap, invite your sit bones to rest and find your center of gravity, maybe moving left and right a bit, shifting back and forth,

left and right to find the center of your gravity.

Really taking time to embody, to embody, to inhabit this body. allowing yourself to feel your sit bones on the cushion to really feel the connection between the body, these contact points.

Feeling your feet, feeling the feet on the earth, the contact points,

as if this is all there is,

giving wholehearted attention,

to this grounding, to this wholehearted grounding of our awareness,

the sensations of dear feet on the earth.

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