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

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So, So I appreciate a kind of interdisciplinary dialogue where Buddhist scholars, scientists are talking genuinely trying to understand and where there's maybe we say respect for the capacities or the many

chambers of the heart and also respect for empiricism for the

sense of you know yeah, evidence counts and we can always be wrong.

So this comes from one of those kind of interdisciplinary teams, Davidson and colleagues.

So I wanted to read their kind of very condensed version of what they hypothesize mindfulness meditation training does.

So the author is right and I'll post the article in the YouTube description afterwards.

So they hypothesize, they say core capacities gained through mindfulness meditation training can be stated as follows.

The capacity to sustain present centered awareness is facilitated by the moment by moment focus on the meditation object.

Meta awareness is cultivated primarily through monitoring for distractions.

When, as is frequently the case, a distracting chain of thought captures attention and pulls it away from the object,

D reification is trained by recognizing

that the thoughts are just thoughts and not reality,

non-reactivity to experience is cultivated by rehearsing the non-averse or curious, non-judging stance towards experience and changes in self-related

processing occur through de-reification of self-concept and a decrease in autobiographical narrative thinking.

We're going to cover that in

11 minutes.

So So the movement of this path and I'm sort of on this trip around it these days but the movement the movement of this path is towards a life less mediated by language. It's a kind of progressive move towards a life that's less

mesmerized by the realm of thought.

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