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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and welcome to this Monday morning's

introduction to mindfulness meditation. We're now on the fourth week to do a thinking.

And we just have had a meditation before this that I was happy to do.

I think I arrived a little bit unsettled.

And maybe I spoke a little bit in a confused way at the introduction about what we're doing this week.

There was no electricity at home and other issues going on at home.

So to get down here this morning, there were a lot of steps involved in the dark.

So, um, So thinking there's a

excuse me so thinking so thinking

there's not a few meditators who feel challenged by their thinking, and there's not a few people who are challenged because of their thinking.

Some people are troubled by their fact that they're thinking in meditation

and feel like that's wrong and kind of trying to bat them

away or and some people are not troubled by the fact of their thinking, but they are troubled by what they're thinking.

And I think thoughts can sometimes have a huge impact on our mood or state of mind.

And so in mindfulness meditation,

we're looking to become wise about thinking.

We're not trying to get rid of thinking and we're not trying to

judge our thoughts. We don't have to be critical of them in a certain way.

We're trying to understand how to be with thinking that serves us the best, that is respectful for ourselves and our

thoughts, and that allows us to source our thinking in some of the deepest place within.

And this language of sourcing, I think it's maybe an industrial term when you source material you're looking for the material

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