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The following talk was given at the

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Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hi

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folks, welcome. We

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are good to be with you. I

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guess we meditate. So,

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yeah, let's

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find a posture

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that balances

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relaxation, alertness. If

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you're tired, err on the

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alert side. If you're ramped

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up, err on the relaxed

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side. And

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err, yeah,

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just gently find your way

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into a Dharma

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posture. Your

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body, but also your Dharma

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heart. You

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So just see

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if there's something

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especially entangling

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left over from the day or

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the week, the

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year. Just

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appreciate what that is. Maybe you

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even give it a moment to think

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through so long as you

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don't get more deeply entangled. It

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feels important to just

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feel the

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presence of whatever is left over,

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the fingerprint that leaves in your

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emotional body. Just

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give your blessing to those that affective

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arousal. Give

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your blessing to it. Thank

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you. We

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give our blessing to everything so we

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can put it all down. Thank

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you. Thank

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you. Maybe

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you listen out. Listen

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out for the

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most faint distant sound

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in your

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soundscape. Maybe

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you don't even know if you're hearing a sound

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or silence. Maybe

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you don't even know if you're hearing a sound or silence. Maybe

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you don't even know if you're hearing a sound or silence. We

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look to see what's a

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skillful way of attending to

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vitalize the mind, tranquilize

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our body. You

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You You

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You you

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you great

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is tension hatred,

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aversion is tension self

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is tension duality

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is tension tension duality is

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tension knee

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holding on at all is tension

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and so we relax Thank

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you. Thank

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you. You

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can't exactly relax through more

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willfulness. We

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relax the way

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we exhale. you

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you you

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you you

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you you

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you you

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you there's

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a certain measure of faith

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required to relinquish control

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control To

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stop trying to engineer, to

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stop trying to solve

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the riddle of our

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life of this moment. Instead

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to be softened

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by the moment. Don't

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look for any foothold in samsara.

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You you you

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you you

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Thank you. Thank

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you. Just

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breathing into

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the space called me, mine. Relaxing.

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Thank you. When

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we command ourselves to relax,

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it's just a

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kind of reiteration of the clinging. The

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way we fall asleep is

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a kind of relinquishment

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of the willfulness.

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Maybe it's kind of

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the same for falling

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awake. You

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You you

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you your

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ground is just openness

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you you

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you you