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

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Good evening. Welcome, welcome.

Nice to see you all.

It's funny how sometimes I find like little pieces of Dharma

just in little snippets in the daily life.

And recently I came across this quote from Rilke letters to a young poet

and just these few lines

Let everything happen to you

Beauty and Terror

Just keep going No feeling is final.

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror, just keep going. No feeling is final.

It's so compact and there's a lot there, a lot there.

So I want to talk a little bit about feelings, about emotions, kind of how to be with them

and what our meditation or mindfulness practice

can do is a support for them. I'll start with a little bit of a definition. We can consider

that emotions are a form of communication from ourselves to ourselves.

In some kind of way, there's this opportunity maybe to learn something about ourselves.

When we're in tune with our emotions, like, oh, wow, I'm really angry.

I guess this is more important to me than I realized.

Or I feel sad. This recognition like, oh yeah, maybe

that was more harmed or hurt or feeling grief or loss more than I realized or something

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