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

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And that is this quality of allowing,

allowing whatever is happening in this moment to be happening in this moment.

It's so common that there's a settle, maybe it's not even settle,

sense of like, no, I don't want this experience I want something

better than I'm dreaming up in my mind or that I'm remembering in my mind.

So I'm remembering in my mind.

So I'm not talking about like allowing like terrible injustices or allow allowing all kinds of terrible things that happen in the world, I'm talking about just this moments

experience, just this moments experience. Right now, for example, the pressure against the cushion or the chair against the body.

When you're doing walking meditation, the pressure on the bottom of the feet as you walk.

The experience of the chest moving when you breathe.

The experience of seeing when the eyes are open. Just that moment after moment, is there a way that we can just allow that moment to be there? It doesn't mean

it's going to be pleasant and it doesn't mean that's going to be exactly what we wished for.

But it is the reality of the moment.

And there's something really powerful

about aligning with the reality of the moment.

Instead of trying to push it away or deny it or go off into fantasies or memories and hope that when we come back from the

fantasy or memory it'll be different. There's this real something very

powerful about just being with this reality and part of that

power comes from this is what liberation is this is what freedom is. This is what freedom is. Freedom doesn't mean that all of a sudden everything is

beautiful and rainbows and unicorns and that kind of stuff, right? It just means that we can be with what's happening, with

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