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

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So I'll begin with a cartoon I saw.

There's a school of fish swimming deep in the ocean and one of the fish says, are we there yet?

So in mindfulness practice, we take a lot of care to get to know, to understand or thinking mind.

But that understanding is for a purpose.

The idea is to have freedom with our thoughts however they are,

whether the mind's busy or if the mind is exquisitely silent.

The Buddha said, the Dharma is good in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end.

In other words, it's good even if we spend most of the last meditation distracted, that awareness that brings us back

is a moment of freedom. That awareness that sees the painfulness of the angry mind is a moment

of freedom. The quote I read yesterday refers to this taste of freedom, this taste of non-clinging.

Just as this great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, So also this teaching and practice

as one taste,

the taste of liberation.

When we're mindful, not clinging,

we get this taste of freedom regularly.

A moment of mindfulness is not a moment of clinging.

Even if we're mindful of clinging, that mindfulness is not clinging.

So we can practice with that taste to to experience that freedom throughout the day,

these little moments, these little tastes of freedom.

And we can also live with the promise of freedom.

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