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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Just a minute here. So hello everyone and welcome to our meditation session and for this session I'd like to

convey convey visually a teaching that I a teaching that I offered at this last retreat I taught at

Insight Retreat Center.

And, but it's meant today to

offer for a kind of distinction

between mindfulness and concentration.

These are two partners in the practice and they work together,

but they're distinct in some ways.

And so to begin this kind of visual demonstration,

we begin with the notion that occasionally we human beings are entangled in our concerns.

We're caught up, we're stuck, we're attached, and it could be with people, we're attached and it could be with people we're entangled with people we are

co-dependent we are upset with them we're just kind of wrapped up around our

concerns around them or with things in the world or even

with ourselves and aspects of ourselves.

And the demonstration for this would be like the fingers in our hand coming together through hands and

being and locking together just like really locked together and it can't

really quite make a knot out of it, but they're like if I wrap them around and bend them around each other then pull apart I just can't get them apart.

If I'm really holding on gripping on tight that then I can't get them apart. I have to

release the hands to be able to get them apart. So entangled in things. It's possible to be so in the middle of the drama of it all that

were kind of in it and entangled in something and the metaphor the classic example for me is being in a group of people who are

caught up in an argument about something

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