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

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Great. So hello again, hello and welcome to Happy Hour everyone. It's nice to be with you.

Happy New Year, I don't think I've seen you in 2024. I don't know. It's been teaching, traveling, and I've been sick for a while for a long while.

So feeling a little better this week delighted to be here and yeah let's

let's practice together let's practice maybe I don't want to say so many words to to set up the

frame but just for us to sit together. Um and yeah practicing some meta for ourselves for others

landing with with goodness with kindness so let's just begin so so inviting you inviting

us to to arrive in this moment in this body,

however this moment is,

can we be okay with whatever is

whatever is happening in this moment in this body right now.

Just a radical acceptance.

Can we start with radical acceptance of all the causes and conditions that have come to be in this way,

things as they have come to be in this way, things as they have things to be just as they are, whatever is happening in this body and this heart and this mind in this moment.

Not making it wrong, not pushing it away

it away

and also not indulging in it.

The middle way of the Buddha is the middle way between suppression and indulgence, not indulging in thoughts,

emotions, etc. and not suppressing them.

So what does that exactly mean?

It's letting them be just as they are.

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