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. Hello from the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and welcome to this guided meditation and we're in the middle of a five

part And we're in the middle of a five-part series on the faculties of faith,

energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, the supports that we have

within us waiting for us to, their potentials within us, waiting for us to use, to engage, to support us to be present,

to overcome the way the mind obscures the present moment with its distractions and preoccupations.

And, um...

So today it's mindfulness and mindfulness is such a fantastic potential capacity we have and it's it's such a rich aspect of our capacity for attention and we have many capacities, many sense doors for attention. We can

pay attention with our tongue as we taste, nose as we smell, ears as we listen, and eyes as we see and the body as we have

tactile contact with objects in the world.

And then there's other forms of perception that we have.

There's mental forms of attention that we have that we can observe things

quietly from the mind's eye, we can know cognitively what's happening as it's

happening and all of these together cognitively what's happening as it's happening.

And all of these together contribute

to what can be called mindfulness.

And because it's, and more,

so mindfulness is a kind of multifaceted domain of attention.

And so because of this over time I delight in having different words to translate the word

sati or different ways of understanding mindfulness. Today I would like to use the word

accompaniment that as we practice mindfulness we're accompanying our experience, standing close to it, standing near, being near, remaining close.

And in the ancient world, the word, the word, the word, the word, the

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