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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So good morning everyone.

morning everyone.

Have a good day.

I appreciate very much the chats and I know that the people who chat are a small

percentage of the people who are attending right now and who listen and watch these teachings.

And I take those of you who chat with wonderful good mornings

and greetings as kind of representative of the goodwill that exists in this wider group of people who are part of this YouTube community. So thank you and also a delight in seeing

names that I recognize either because I know you're

I know you're regularly do a greeting on the chat

or because I know you from earlier,

other places, other retreats and things.

And it's really, really nice. Thank you. It makes it kind of come alive a little bit more for me to be doing this teaching.

There was a time years ago where I would have thought this was really strange and it may be impossible to teach this way in an empty room, but I feel very connected and appreciative of all of you and this chance to be able

to communicate this way.

So thank you.

And the chats make a big difference for that.

So the topic is mindfulness of thinking.

And today I want to connect thinking to our emotions.

For some people there's almost no difference between the two and for some people they are quite distinct

but there's also a strong bridge a strong connection between the two and to find a way of not identifying so

strongly with our thoughts or our emotions so we can see them more clearly

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