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

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to this meditation.

And... Welcome to this meditation and to begin straight off to assume a meditation posture and to gently close the eyes and to become aware of what's happening with you, just right off like this now.

Recognize how it is in your body,

recognize how it is in your mind,

and in a very general way to recognize how it is in your heart.

Take a few moments also to recognize how is your breathing at this time.

And all these acts of recognition are activities of the mind that are recognizing things that may be

you would not have noticed unless you were directed. To do so, sometimes the tensions in our body, how our body is,

is not noticed because we're not paying attention.

We can feel what's happening in our body, and we can also do recognition of it.

We can be so busy thinking we don't recognize how we are in our mind.

Recognition is an activity of the mind.

In and of itself, it's distinct. is an activity of the mind.

In and of itself, it's distinct from what it recognizes.

What it recognizes can be there whether what's recognized is a distinction where peace, calm, equanimity can be established.

Sometimes the act of recognition comes along with a lot of associated activities,

judgments, preferences, opinions, attitudes, attitudes, and sometimes the act of recognition

is very simple, ordinary,

and

care is no extra

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