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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Welcome to the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City. I'm sitting here in our meditation hall and happy to do so

and to be with you all of you.

some of you are familiar with a very common metaphor that I know of it mostly used in the secular

mindfulness movement and sometimes in mindfulness of schools

they'll use it where they'll take a container of water and sand, water and glitter, like a snow bowl, and

shake everything up and then watch as all the sediment, all the dust and sparkles or whatever it might be,

settle into it.

And you see clearly what's there.

The water becomes clear.

And so another way of maybe saying the same thing, which is not so much as settling, which is wonderful

feeling, calming, settling down, is that in this practice that're doing we also want to give time for the self-organizing

movement of our body and minds, that as awareness wakes up, as become more aware of what's

happening here and now, the idea is we're integrating, we're including,

we're everything that we are, and if we take time to feel and sense into our bodies, wake up our bodies, feel our bodies,

wake up emotionally, feel what's happening emotionally, recognize what's happening in our mind, there's something about

the simple recognition of it and waiting, the simple recognition and allowing it to be there in the field of attention.

Allowing it to be there while sensing it, especially in a physical way, the

sensing, feeling, the embodiedness of it. Even the embodiedness the

physical way, the embodiedness of it. embodiedness of a mind which is caught up in thoughts and ideas.

What is the physicality?

What's the feeling? what's the feeling what's the happening what's the

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