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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and welcome and I Welcome. And I feel kind of delighted to be back at IMC and to be able to welcome you all and feel your welcome you all and feel your welcome

to be sitting here and the opportunity to share

the practice with you all all. And when I was a child, sometimes when I was traveling with my

family in a car I was sitting in the back seat.

And I loved to roll, if we were on the freeway,

I would love to roll down the window

and stick my hand out with my palm flat like a wing of a plane and move my hand up and

down feeling the lift and the push down of the wind.

And I just put me right there in the present moment.

I just felt like I was completely absorbed in this kind of constant movement of the wind against my hand.

This morning I bicycled down to IMC and there was part of the time bicycling

down, especially coming down the hill where there was kind of an exhilarating feeling of just being fully present.

There was something about the speed, the being carried, the gravity, that really

any other cares except the exhilaration of being carried along by the bicycle.

So there is a way of meditating which is relatively peaceful but

puts us right in the present moment

so that it feels like in the present, in the immediacy of now

we're being carried.

We're like riding the bicycle or being carried by a wave if you've ever body surfed or been carried by a wave or

in a, there was a delightful or in a

there was a delightful place in West Virginia

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