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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello on this Monday, Monday morning in Redwood City, California as I sit here at the Insight

Meditation Center and for this morning's meditation, I'd like to evoke the idea of wholeness that one of the ways to meditate is to sit with the whole of what's happening.

And to begin that way, to best that we can, a global experience of the whole show.

And it means we don't select out any particular thing to focus on,

but rather in the way that you might kind of gaze out upon a mountain in the distance

or clouds floating by in the sky or out across the ocean when

set the beach that there's a kind of just like just broad attention, wide attention to include the whole.

And if the attention falls on any particular thing.

Just welcome it and say, this too is included in the whole.

And one way of understanding this is that we're letting our attention be the widest circle possible within which all

things are allowed to be, all experiences are allowed to be equally without being for or against without welcoming or

un welcoming any particular experience that's happening.

And so it's all included, all allowed here.

And that's just the beginning. But that capacity to kind of include everything with almost with the little saying.

This too, this too is included.

This creates the conditions upon which wisdom can operate, where clarity, understanding can operate, and where

there can be a wise discernment, a wise letting go, or a wise picking up, or a wise selectivity of where the attention goes. It might be

the sense of whole allows us to discover like there's a big circle if everything's

included we might be able over time to discover where the center of that big circle

is and we would sit where the center of that big circle is.

And we would sit at that center,

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