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

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Maybe just beginning with whatever gratitude you have for having a path. Even though you could say I was pretty happy

before finding practice.

There was another way in which life felt unworkable. that there were existential questions, challenges that I had absolutely no answer for.

And the path didn't answer everything, but it answered enough.

And for that, there might be some good bit of gratitude in your life, mine. So just let the gratitude you have for your path just soften your heart as we begin here. You're going to. You're going to. And then where the attention goes is much less important than the qualities of the attention. Shins and Young defines mindfulness as a three-fold skill set working together.

Concentration, clarity, and equanimity. The the stability of the

of the attentional focus the telescope gazing at the stars

shaking shaking.

We miss the grandeur of the sky. So we stabilize the attention.

That means we detect distractors that go

nurture this stability, this fidelity to the object of attention. You're going to see? and clarity

perceiving phenomena at a much higher resolution. could say both temporally and spatially that we're perceiving time in thinner slices.

We're perceiving

the object with greater magnification, higher resolution picture of the breathing or our body or whatever. You're going to see? The equanimity.

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The equinimity the equanimity. becoming frictionless in the face of Samsara.

Frictionless. Even given the tides of pleasant and unpleasant, the tides of change,

Anicha. We might still have preferences, but equanimity settles the compulsive energies to enact those preferences. references.

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