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

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One of the tasks of mindfulness meditation

is to keep our attention fresh, meaning to always be ready to discover each moment for itself, almost like each moment arrives and it's a new event

completely fresh and now to carry along with us our preconceived ideas, our biases,

or are the conclusions we've made about what's happening.

And of course, it's easy enough and may be appropriate to make conclusions about their

recognitions of what's happening.

But then it might keep us from being fresh for the next moment.

And so one way of staying fresh, like every moment is a new moment even if it's repeating what just

happened is to kind of have the attitude is either what else, what else is happening here?

What's next?

Or the attitude, maybe not. Maybe it's not like this. Maybe so, maybe not.

Maybe so, maybe not. We shall see.

Especially this idea of maybe not.

And then maybe you come to the same conclusion, the same recognition.

That's fine, but to stay fresh always new. What's this?

Ready to be, almost like you're ready to be surprised or ready to discover. And in the process of doing this, it isn't so much about what you

discover, what you're aware of, what you know, as it is the openness, the freshness, the relaxed attention

that doesn't settle on some idea or conclusion.

The sense of being, the attention is always fresh,

like walking through some beautiful natural setting you never been to before and just like the

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