So again, the landscape of the practice, just to name that you keep hearing from us,

that it's almost as many body minds as there are here.

There's going to be different contours of how we're practicing different ways.

We're going to be leaning.

And even your way will keep adapting.

There needs to be a fluidity to really respond in the moment in a way that most allows you

to be here.

But the basic ingredients are the same.

That for all of us, there is because our conditioning is to leave and to associate, there's

a tremendous skillfulness in arriving again and again and waking up our bodies.

And because our minds are scattered and generally the fear kind of drives us to clutch,

being able to relax and stay and stay and stay, concentration, really sustained attention,

allows for a kind of settling and clearing and penetration that's really valuable.

And this embodiment and this kind of settled collectedness supports, this is the heart

of the practice, this presence that knows what's happening, that can hold what's happening,

that can be here.

Now one of the questions that comes up often in practice is, well, when do we bring in

all the refined kind of attention of inquiry and so on?

So I just want to name that often we're noticing waves arise and we're being with them and

they come and they go and we come back to just more of a resting with what is.

Sometimes the waves are really big ones and they're knocking us around.

There's a real tangle.

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