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

Please visit our website at audiodderma.org. So thank you for their comments and I'll read more of them at the end and

I'll certainly sympathize those people who felt there was a lot of words during that meditation.

And but that's the trade-off between being able to be a silence that helps us to settle versus receiving some teachings and some

approaches that rather than explaining them in a talk afterwards, but somehow a little bit going along

and feeling them here, and there's a long history of receiving teachings like this and then going off to meditate with them.

So, and, um, and, um, so, um,

and, um, so this week, mindfulness of emotions, I hope offered both the different perspectives

of how to be present for emotions so the art of it you can kind of the different

choices of how to be present for emotion so the art of it you can kind of have different choices of how to be

and with them in different times in different ways.

But also it was a little bit progressive.

It was creating a building the container,

building the context so that we can do something

which is often quite difficult, and that is to sit in the middle of our emotional life,

but sit in the middle without being caught in it or entangled or reactive or without feeling that the were victims of our

emotions that were collapsing under the weight of them and we define a way to sit in the middle where we feel at ease or we feel free or we feel strong, we feel capable,

we feel capable, we have the capacity to be with them and be present, and then to be

able to get to really, when the time is right to really be intimate with them to

really feel closely what exactly is the experience, the present moment experience.

Often with emotions, especially with difficult emotions,

there's often a very strong connection to thinking and reacting and believing or

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