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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello.

a warm hello from Redwood City.

Warm hello from this maybe in certain kind of way at the center of this

wonderful online community for these of this gathering for the meditation and teaching.

Thank you for being here.

And,

so today I'd like to make a very important distinction for in mindfulness practice and that is that there is an important distinction between what we see and how we see.

So to take it literally with seeing with our eyes, that you know we what we see we could see any object at all a mount in the distance a person

some delicious food that's in front of us that seems appetizing.

Whatever it might be, something unpleasant, something pleasant,

something pleasant, something neutral,

there's the object. And then there's a wide range of ways that we,

the ways we could see it. What comes along with seeing? There could be seeing that goes, comes along with fear.

And so the eyes are part of the scanning for safety, scanning for where the danger is, and that's the

orientation. There could be seeing that's oriented towards what we want, our desires, and

looking for what's good and wonderful and what's in it for me.

There's the, we can see through the lens of what we don't like, a version, what we want to say no to, what we want to

pull away, what we want to resist. We can see through skepticism and cynicism, we can see through

hatred, intense situation, we can see through hatred, we can see through

intense infatuation and

and craving. And so that way the eyes work varies on what the eye see, how the

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