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

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Meditation practice we do here.

One of its hallmarks is a simplicity.

And it's a wonderful kind of little question you can ask yourself,

am I being simple right now? Or can I be simpler? Because there's a simpler way of being here.

And because some people are not simple at all because they're thinking about planning,

remembering, figuring things out with their head and hardly present at all. But even if

you're able to be here, the idea is to be here with as simple as you can with the experience

of here and now.

And using breathing as a focal point for meditation

is meant to support that simplicity.

You don't have to be, it's not like an engineering project,

it's not like you have to try to make something happen by focusing on the breath,

but it's more like trusting, just staying present for the breathing in a very simple way.

So things all around that can just settle and become quieter.

And so you're not feeding or actively involved in other thoughts, concerns.

Just going to be simple.

We're walking meditation, same thing. The rhythm of walking,

the feet stepping is meant to be the simple place where the mind gets simple, just kind of settles,

rests, is present there, so that the mind gets simpler as well. And one of the principles or ideas that we have set to help that process of

simplicity is that in any given moment there's only two things happening. There's the experience of the

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