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

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So it's time. So welcome to our YouTube community, everyone.

As I mentioned a minute ago, it's my first time here doing YouTube Live.

It's here in 7 a.m. in California, I'm in Sunnyvale.

And I'm delighted to be sharing the Dharma with all of you.

So I'll begin with just a little bit, a few decades ago, there was a global meditation

event.

It was called the harmonic convergence where people all over the world celebrated a rare celestial event and meditated together.

No matter where they were, though they had parties and celebrations.

And a couple of friends and I decided to join them in spirit, you know, and to do it at sunrise by meditating the top of a nearby mountain.

It was beautiful, awe-inspiring this story. We sat. It was just, you know, just daylight had just started.

And we made ourselves really comfortable, bundled up in our blankets,

and just getting ready to really appreciate and join the world in meditation.

And when a fly started buzzing around.

And very, very quickly, the little annoying fly became much more compelling than the beautiful vista, than the feeling of harmony with the world.

And in mindfulness practice, we can pay attention to what's easiest to notice, to what's obvious.

So I became mindful of the obvious, how much I disliked the buzzing.

It was going to land on me, the tension.

My body was tight.

I wanted to take action against the fly. But I began to

see the aversion clearly, and I saw it clearly the body relaxed and it gradually dissipated.

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