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

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YouTube meditation session and for this morning I'd like to keep the sitting mostly silent and invite you to put together what I've taught so far the first two days, which is to whatever happens for you during this meditation,

whether it's your breathing

that you're able to hang out with,

whether it's sensations of your body, sounds in the area where you're at,

emotions or thoughts, that you would recognize what's happening, you would know it,

by stepping back, not being completely entangled, involved with it,

or reactive to it, or judging it, just know it really simply.

And then with that ability to not be entangled or reactive, just know it simply then come and respect it come

together and decide the right distance for your awareness to respect it properly

if it's properly.

If it's a mountain line in the wilderness,

the respectful distance is really far.

If it's a young child that is injured and you're putting on a band-aid, the respectful

distance is much closer. So find the place and then linger. Stay connected

for at least three breaths to whatever is happening and then

maybe return to the breathing. And then that would be the rhythm where in the

silence of this meditation you are meeting yourself you're learning

you're experimenting with how to be have a simple presence recognition

with anything that happens there's a meeting happening and in a sense you're meeting

yourself, maybe meeting yourself in a deep way and how you meet it, how you meet your experience is what this meditation is about, meeting it with a combination

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