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

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Hello everyone and welcome to Wednesday morning here in Redwood City at the Insight

Meditation Center and already a bit warm the morning.

And I am feeling happy and a bit inspired to take this seat and to be preparing to talk to you.

So this morning meditation, the introduction to it is to the instructions is that when we do mindfulness meditation,

maybe when we do most forms of Buddhist meditation,

that stay close to what you can directly sense, see, and know, without any interpretation, without any judgment, without any recourse to events that are not here and now to predictions of the future,

but then a recourse to, What's outside of the basic sense experience that you have here and now.

And so certainly the five senses,

but also the sixth sense in Buddhism is

the knowing of the mind, knowing of chita, knowing of the thinking, knowing of impulses, desires, and aversion.

There's a kind of like assume, assume there's like a sense store, a sense that can just know that,

that's what it is.

As opposed to going, getting involved in what you're thinking about.

Because you're thinking about what you're thinking about, it just leads to more thinking. Rather than what you desire, just no desire. To think

about what you're desiring can pulls you into the world of thoughts and maybe even more desires.

If there's aversion, just know the aversion, the simplicity of it.

You don't have to go into what you have a version towards. Just a simple

experience. So coming back to the basic here, if there is a lot of wonderful experiences in meditation

that you're ready to interpret

as being that you're on the brink of enlightenment that this is your karma that you have

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