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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello everyone and welcome. When I think about mindfulness practice, I often think about something I consider a synonym to mindfulness and or an very important element of it and that

is honesty that honesty is mindfulness out loud.

And of course we don't necessarily say

everything that's going on in us, not loud, but this idea that mindfulness involves

an honesty to oneself. It sometimes said that you know it's not always so clear how much honesty we should provide the world if things can be hurtful for people to say things that what we really think.

The bride at the wedding asks you what you think of her dress and

it's better not to say exactly what you think.

And so the,

but in Buddhism it said it's never okay to lie to oneself. Never, one should always be honest to oneself.

So mindfulness is self-honesty. We sit down and to be honest about what's happening

for ourselves here and now.

And some people will practice what's called mental noting as part of mindfulness practice.

And that's kind of saying to oneself what it is that's happening in the moment.

But that's an opportunity for that honesty.

Oh, I'm feeling agitated.

That's what's happening.

Or I'm troubled.

That's what's happening or I'm troubled that's what's happening or you know that I'm spinning out and

whatever it might be and and with that, a moment of mindfulness, it isn't that that's the end of the story,

just to note what's happening

and then go on to know the next thing.

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