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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So hello and welcome to this third talk on meditation that following these 30 minute guided meditations that are supporting what

we're doing each day and so in a sense during this course that they're offering here,

the instructions in mindfulness meditation.

We're slowly building, putting down the foundations with the different elements that are useful to take into account to be included as we do mindfulness practice. And it'll be 25 talks

in the end, so there will be lots of go deeper and deeper in a sense or with greater

fuller applications in our life on a path to freedom, path to greater goodwill.

And if all of it was kind of compressed into a 15 minute talk,

it would seem extremely complicated.

But I'm hoping that by stretching it out over 25 days,

that it will support you to stay very simple because simplicity is one of the hallmarks of mindfulness practice.

Even though there might be your life and your life experience

and how it's happening might be multifaceted.

The idea is to find a way to stay simple and

ease full as we know it, as we show up in our present for our experience.

And one of the ways of appreciating this simplicity

is to recognize that maybe it's a little bit for the purposes of teaching to make this next point,

but the point is that there's always only two things happening.

There is what is happening and how we're aware of it, the

knowing of it. So what we're aware of could be many, many varied things, of course.

But how we know of it, everything is known through the lens of knowing.

Everything is known by through seeing, hearing, touching,

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