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

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So welcome folks. Yeah, nice to be touched up.

So I've shut down that function.

And if I look more grizzled today than yesterday,

that's the explanation.

It wasn't a rough day yesterday.

Weren't hard on me.

So, with that critical announcement,

complete, can meditate.

But before we do find from Simon Vay.

She said, attention, taken to its highest degree is the same thing as prayer. Attention taken to its highest degree is the same thing as prayer.

Hmm.

Taken. taken to its highest, you know, it classically attention is said to be a kind of neutral factor, you know, wholesome or unwholesome but I believe she's pointing to is the more deeply intimate we get with experience,

the more profoundly a sense of the meditator falls away.

The meditator becomes the meditated, and the attention that normally feels like, well,

I'm operating the spotlight of attention behind the scenes in some way that falls away and

the kind of effortlessness of awareness, the emptiness of awareness, the enchanted,

devotional, inseparable from a certain kind of nonviolence.

Attention becomes prayer, becomes prayer.

And becomes prayer. And the sense of the view, wise view,

wise view, is something that gets added to the attention.

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