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

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Greetings, friends.

Good morning, afternoon, evening, whatever your timezone might be.

Wonderful to be with you and to practice together as we are, as we all join from different places in the world.

The fact that this week we are exploring the five aggregates, the five condos, which is one of the important teachings of the Buddha and a way for us to consider the constituents of our experience of reality to be exploring the five aggregates.

the constituents of our experience, of reality, to be experienced in the

gist of these five aggregates, these five heaps. That's really the way the word

aggregates can make sense because they come and they they can join together.

So yesterday we started with a form, the body, form internal, external.

And the day will touch into form a bit and then continue with with the second one

being a vedina or a felenton. So, so let us meditate together and and I'll

share reflections afterwards. So, let us arrive, let us arrive in this body.

In this moment in time,

coming together in different parts of this planet, this precious planet,

coming together with wholeheartedness.

Feeling this body, this sitting breathing human body,

connected to the earth.

Feeling our sit bones, sensations of contact and becoming curious about

sensations, of hardness, heaviness, pressure,

eat and cold.

So, often hard to tell where our sit bones or bottom begins and the chair ends,

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