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

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So welcome folks. Good morning to most of you again.

Afternoon to some, maybe it's a Thailand in there too.

So welcome to you wherever you are.

Yeah.

There's always a little bit of a dilemma for me about how precise or impressionistic to be giving instructions.

And I feel like I almost always err on the side of the impressionistic kind of element of just dropping Dharma thoughts into the mind that catalyzes a certain kind of view.

And there is a place for, yeah, for precision and attentional direction.

And we can do that, I feel, without incarnating a meditator self.

That is, it's cramped.

It's tricky, but we can do it.

So anyway, I thought today, be a little more technique-y.

And share something that's been meaningful for me from a teacher I sat with her long times and young.

And his technique is always evolving.

So I don't even know if I'm representing it appropriately as he kind of tweaks and develops it.

But, yeah, the kind of core of it is discriminating between three core sensory events, namely visual thinking.

So my eyes are closed, but I've got the computer screen, got the room outline of my body.

No simpler, no more complex than that.

There's words in our mind auditory thinking.

We can actually sense a kind of spatial location to thinking.

And so if I told you to say your name silently in your own head, you would actually hear it somewhere.

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