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

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Warm greetings and welcome to this meditation session and it's part of a series on introduction to mindfulness practice where the second week of the series were focusing on mindfulness of the body.

And so I want to begin today with a guided meditation

on the body, body mindfulness.

It's a little bit of an exercise to begin with, but it's an exercise that meant to give you

insiders inside experience of what mindfulness to the body can be like.

That we want to be, the Buddha talked about being aware of the body in the body to be

aware to be mindful of the body in terms of the body.

And what that means is that we're not adding a lot of or any judgments or evaluations or commentary or heavy-handed use of me and myself

and mine, I, the doer,

with the mindfulness.

We're just being aware of the simplicity

of how the body experiences itself, independent of the more complicated

judgments and comments, commentary we have about it. So it's meant to be phenomenally simple and some people find

it's a huge relief that we don't have to be judging, you don't have to be figuring things out, we don't

have to be thinking about. We're allowed just to, in a sense, rest the awareness in the body letting the body do the body fullness that the body

do the awareness fullness of what the experience is. So to begin assuming a

meditation posture that gives you some stability and you might move your body around.

Whatever way you have positioned your body kind of wiggle it or rocket or to kind of find a way to establish the stability of being here on this spot, nowhere else just here. gently closing your eyes.

your eyes.

And before we do the exercise to take a few long slow breaths in the way that's comfortable for you, letting go as you exhale. Releasing near the end of the exhale, so the exhale continues a bit. I'm going to And then letting your breathing return to normal.

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