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

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So welcome.

It's nice to be here with you all, and maybe we can dedicate our time together to Tanya

so that she has some good healing energies and can feel better soon.

And before we started meditating, I said this topic, or this quote from Mark Nipo,

to listen is to lean in softly. I love this, lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

And partly why I like this is sometimes, like, there's just so much happening in the news,

it's always happening in the news, right?

It doesn't, I was looking back at notes of a Darmatalk I had given in years ago.

And it was like, there's so much in the news, we should do this.

I thought, wow, you know, it seems like I'm saying this often.

But it's natural when there's stuff happening, whether it's in the news or in our personal

lives with family or work or whatever it is, it's natural to think like, well, what can I do?

What can I do to help make the situation better in some kind of way?

And something that we can always do is listen deeply.

Listen to others. Listen to others.

Listen to ourselves.

There's so often there's this way in that we feel like, okay, we have to go out and fix things,

which sometimes might be appropriate.

But there's also just to be able to like to connect with others

and to acknowledge and how others are feeling

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