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

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Hello everyone, and welcome to this meditation.

And what I've been doing this week is offering some meditation,

some guided meditation

around some of the very basic

topics of

inside meditation, the way we teach it here at IMC, breath, body, emotions today on thinking,

but doing so in a way that then creates a reference point or a support for understanding the four noble truths.

So mindfulness of the body is a powerful support for understanding Dukha, the first noble

truth of suffering. And mindfulness of emotions is a useful reference point for understanding the cause of suffering.

And today I'm going to do mindfulness of thinking as a reference point to the cessation of suffering.

So one of the powerful things in meditation

is to understand the difference between discursive thinking

and a quieter, more deeper, more softer, gentler way of thinking

which does not involve conversations, stories, projections of imaginary futures.

It does involve movies in the head or great visions of things to come

or things past, living in memories.

There's a simpler thinking that has to do with just here and now,

recognizing what's happening,

a little bit giving ourselves very simple meditation instructions

with what is happening.

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