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

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Welcome to our Friday and end of this week on the instructions on mindfulness of the body.

And strictly speaking, the way that I was taught mindfulness in Burma

at the place called the Mahasi Center.

The, we weren't practicing exactly mindfulness of the body.

That wasn't precisely the

description more precisely we're practicing sensory awareness there was a

referencing almost everything you experienced to how the how was felt in the body in terms of sensations.

And it was a wonderful adventure

because so many of things that go on, even thinking,

which the thinking itself might be disembodied.

But the process of thinking, the energy of thinking, the pressure of thinking. the

the pressure of thinking can have a physical component.

Emotions, we probably wouldn't even know what emotions were having unless they were somehow connected to our body and the body sensations that we feel.

And so to refer everything back to the body,

to the sensations that make it up.

Now,

today I like to offer you a little different way of practicing what I've taught so far this week,

and that is to have a centering or a home base in the breathing, but you don't have to stay there for very long.

Don't feel like you have to kind of develop concentration on the breathing for this exercise, but rather it's the default. You come back to it regularly, and maybe it's only three or four breaths. It could be longer if it's enjoyable to do so.

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