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

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Hello, everyone, and welcome you to IMC.

Enter our meditation together.

And, as we begin,

we want to mention that the attitude with which we meditate

might be more important than how we meditate, the practice, meditation, practice we do.

If we do a practice that is striving,

we are just developing more striving.

If we do a meditation practice that has a lot of focus on myself as a good meditator,

we might just be developing more preoccupation with self.

If we do meditation half-heartedly,

we might be cultivating more half-heartedly in our lives.

But if we do meditation practice wholeheartedly,

as if each moment is arriving,

each moment is fulfilling the purpose of meditation.

So we are not ahead of ourselves,

not trying to make something happen,

but cultivating more a deep groundedness,

a deep settleness here in this experience.

Then we are developing that for ourselves,

a way of being at home in this moment.

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