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

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welcome, And for this meditation session, continuing to practice with mindfulness of breathing and one of the important

elements of mindfulness practice is not doing the mindfulness exactly what we're mindful of,

but rather how we're mindful. mindful of

and that the attitude with which we are bringing attention to our lives

is very important and that attitude can be can come

along with all kinds of mindfulness and come along with all kinds of attitudes.

There can be mindfulness can come along with all kinds of attitudes.

There can be fear as part of it.

They were worried about how we're doing or what's happening

or what's going to happen.

And so there's a heightened kind of alertness that is

fear-based. There could be a desire and we want something to happen. We're looking for something to happen. We're trying to make something happen.

There can be a version that we're going to avoid something. We don't want to feel discomfort. we don't want to be in the present

moment because it's boring and so there's an aversion or pushing or a resistance.

There can be straining there can be straining, there can be complacency.

There's all kinds of things that come along with mindfulness.

And over time these attitudes that are extra and not

needed begin to fall away. We start seeing them. At first we might not notice

them, but the regularity of practicing begins to slowly reveal

and relax and to settle all the extra attitudes that make mindfulness more complicated than needs to be.

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