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

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Hello and welcome to our morning meditation.

And it is, this meditation is a continuity of so much of what we've done so far this year, but it focuses on something very simple,

and maybe it takes a lot of learning,

a lot of practice,

and to be able to be radically simple

with mindfulness practice.

And the radical simplicity, understanding why it's so valuable to have the wisdom to know that

this is okay, not only is it okay, there's tremendous benefit from this simplicity,

is one of the great consequence of doing this practice, understanding Buddhist teachings.

So the simplicity is represented today by the word this.

This is what is happening.

This is what the experience is of this moment.

And the this is always meant to be particular. It isn't this that, you know, this is

the world's spinning around, circulating the sun. That's kind of, to know that, that's kind of abstract.

And from memory and from understanding and learning that we know that.

But the this, of the immediacy of direct experience, this.

And sometimes it's nice to add the word just in front of it. Just this.

So just breathing in. Just the sensations of movement and stretching, expanding pressure that happens with the inhale, just those

sensations, just the exhale, just the sensations of the exhale, where the just

means as a present moment experience, if I just allow the inhale, or any other experience,

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