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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So, hello, hello everyone and welcome to this meditation, broadcast from Insight Meditation Center.

I'm delighted to be with you and the names that I recognize on the chat.

It's also very wonderful to see.

Thank you for being here.

Yesterday in the guided meditation the focus was on ease and recognizing what takes you

away from the ease.

So the simple instruction for meditation was,

or it could be,

set yourself at ease

and notice how you lose the or what takes you away from these.

And doing that we start seeing the activities of the mind where we get agitated or shut down or confused or get caught in thoughts or desires

or verions.

And then the question is if you see that, what do you do? And what we do is we're mindful of it.

We see it clearly that what we're doing. This kind of a truth telling.

I'll look at that. Look what I'm doing. I was at ease and now I'm less at ease.

Just that information begins shifting, maybe our priorities shifting what we want to devote ourselves to.

And so today I want to orient a little differently in that the, at any given moment, setting

yourself at ease and calm, whatever is capable of even if it's ever so slight,

let yourself be at ease and don't make it worse.

Don't make the situation worse.

Don't choose to follow the option which brings you more unease, brings you stress,

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