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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So I welcome you on this second day of our exploration of thinking and in a way it could be very helpful if you also

welcome yourself,

that meditation is a welcoming,

well, you're welcome here to yourself.

And one of the themes for today

is that the mind is not just the mind, the body is not just the body, that these are deeply connected to each other.

And one of the analogies the Buddha uses for this connection is that the mind,

the thinking mind is a puppeteer and it has all these strings in the body and pulling

on the muscles, pulling on the limbs.

And this is a way of speaking to how the connection between thinking

and sensations in the body, tensions in the body,

tensions in the body, movements in the body,

that we can think one kind of thought and it tugs on the belly in a certain kind of way or activates it.

If it's fear, maybe there's a hollow kind of tension in the in the belly if there is a sense of

warmth and love it might be a diffusing feeling, maybe a feeling of warmth or vibration

in the chest. What we think, of course, is very connected to how we feel,

what the emotions we feel.

But for this day, I'd like to emphasize the physicality,

the physical activation, the physical activation,

expression, the physical impact that thinking has.

And, uh, and. has. And the physical source from which thinking arises.

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