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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello everyone, welcome.

And for this meditation today,

I want to continue on the instructions of wholeness.

Somehow our capacity to have the attention be broad enough to some to take in the whole of

the present moment.

It's possible to be in a natural setting, maybe at the beach or a park, and be absorbed in looking at some are preoccupied with some insect or a snake

that's right there on the path and to be absorbed in that maybe fascinated by it.

And then absorbed in that, maybe fascinated by it, and then, or maybe part of a conversation with a friend

that's intense and difficult.

And then something is a pause and standing up and looking around and seeing,

wow, the whole of this natural setting, includes so much more than the conversation or the

insect, the particular thing we're focusing on. And there's a sense of kind of the expansiveness

and broadness

and a wider context for what's happening

rather than what's right up in the details of it all.

And much of the ways in which we're troubled is because there's something that we are focusing on, something we're thinking about, concerned with, something we're feeling, and without having to make

anything go away, there is another way of finding peace.

And that is the peace that is broader,

that's wider than the particular trouble that we have to expand outwards.

It's kind of like maybe being in a very large room and then somehow becoming attuned to the

empty space in the room, none that holds the chairs, the tables, the people that are in the room,

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