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

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So hello, and good Monday, to all of you.

I'll know to this beginning of the week.

And there is a art in Dharma practice

to appreciate beginnings. To appreciate that in some way every moment is a beginning,

that every moment we come to a fork where we can choose a healthy, wholesome, good way of being present that supports us, that nourishes us.

Or we can maybe go maybe down another fork where we get denourished.

So here we are beginnings. Every moment is an ending and a beginning. And the glory of

Dharma practice is to really appreciate the newness of these beginnings. And there's a

wonderful art,

wonderful way of least in meditation,

to put aside the past.

You don't have to forget it forever.

Put aside the future. There's lots of time in the future to think about the future.

To be here and allow every moment to be a new beginning where we step into it with attention, with awareness. And with samadhi practice,

that stepping into this moment over and over again to this newness of now,

is stepping into or being to a simplicity of being.

Sometimes I think of the definition of samadhi.

I have different definitions that I'd like to play with. And I'll probably offer different

ones as we go along here. But the one that I would like to emphasize today is samadhi is simplicity.

A radical simplicity, simple way of being with one thing.

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