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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello from Insight Meditation Center on this Monday morning and today I begin a a new kind of series within the wider series, longer series, on

introduction to mindfulness part two.

And one of the important areas of mindfulness is not just what's happening in our experience to be present here and now,

to body, breath, emotions, feelings, thoughts, also to be present for to recognize the ways that

we are attached, the ways that we cling, the ways that we grasp, the ways that we clamp

and down or tighten up or constrict.

And this is central to the Buddhist practice of mindfulness,

because attachment is considered

to be one of the primary or may primary cause to optional

suffering the suffering that we add to our life by the clinging itself.

Clinging itself is a kind of suffering, attachment, is a kind of constriction, a contraction,

a resistance, a tightening up, a weighing down. a

weighing down that we can experience and to lighten up to release

to lighten up, to release, to free up wherever we're attached as part of the

enterprise of the Buddhist teachings on mindfulness. So to do that we want to start becoming

cognizant of how we cling, what forms of attachment we have, the ways, the direct way in which attachment is felt

and experienced.

Generally, even if you feel like it's valid to cling to something to be attached to something if you really feel the cost of the attachment the the impact it has on you, you can feel that it's stressful, feel that it's a limitation, it's a irritation, it's a burden, it's a, it's a,

burden, it's a, it's a, it's a kind of it brings along a kind of a contraction which doesn't feel good and it

leads to further contractions part of the problem of clinging and attachment

is one attachment gives birth to other attachments.

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