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

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And, welcome.

And... And it's probably fair to say or certainly supports deeper exploration of ourselves and meditation is the idea from Zen Master Dogan,

founder of a whole Zen of School of Zen,

where he said that mindfulness of the body is the body's

mindfulness. And what that does is it kind of switches around our idea of mindfulness where there's a very

strong emphasis on subject and object that there's somehow you, up maybe in the

head for some of you who is doing the mindfulness and that you're in charge of the mindfulness and there's

the body down there below and the body is an object of attention.

And there's nothing inherently wrong with that separation, that distinction,

but it can lend itself to a lot of challenges and we build on that, it leads to

a lot of suffering. But to say it's the body's mindfulness is to put mindfulness in the body as intimately

part of the body and maybe if we instead of translate Sati as mindfulness we translate

it as awareness that mindfulness is the body's awareness.

And we're not aware of the body,

but the body is aware of itself.

Both can happen, so I don't want to rule out or all the rich

wonderful ways in which we can be which awareness operates for us. But to appreciate and some deep way in which awareness

is the body, arises from the body.

So one way to understand this is that sensing and sensations are inseparable.

Some people might say that sensing and sensations are non-dual.

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