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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello on the second day five days of doing discussing the hindrances and this is building on the introduction to

meditation series that just finished with the idea that once you have the basic practice, basic instructions for mindfulness practice,

that one of the really important next steps is to understand what interferes or hinders your

mindfulness practice and that does two things. It helps to settle the things that interfere so it's easier to be

present and wonderfully what it does you learn the art of making what hinders our

mindfulness or steadiness or calm to whatever that is to make it the object of

awareness the object of mindfulness and anything that can be made the object of

mindfulness can be made the object of mindfulness can be related to peacefully,

can be related to without clinging or hostility. And the beautiful an inspiring thing, at least for me of this

mindfulness practice, that whatever you can be mindful of, there's a possibility of finding freedom in relationship to it.

And to find freedom, anything that in the world of experience means that freedom can be all-encompassing.

360 degree freedom.

And it's not an aloofness, it's not a disconnection,

it's in some sense it's the opposite.

It's it's learning how to to be entangled so that we can be connected with warmth,

with kindness, with love, with goodwill, to ourselves, and to the world around us.

But that's an ideal.

That's maybe the direction we're going.

And so one of the things we need to learn

is how to turn the attention,

mindfulness, to the ways that we are aversive and the ways in which we have ill will

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