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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone and I appreciate all the greetings on the chat and especially when there's a new name that I haven't seen for a long time.

So thank you for making yourself known this way and my fond feelings for so many of you that I know and those

of you I don't know I'm delighted to know you this way.

So, one of the principles of... One of mindfulness meditation is to keep things simple and perhaps radically simple. and I'll say something little bit complicated to get to the simplicity and that is

I suppose And that any time we're thinking about something that's not in the present moment, here and now, something in the future,

the past, something someplace else, that in the background of that is a belief, a belief that it's

valuable to do so, a belief of something we have to accomplish or get or fix or remember or hold onto or get rid of belief

in a certain understanding of what it means to be a human being, a relationship with other people,

and a belief in what is right and wrong, and belief in how we've been harmed or

benefited. how we've been harmed or benefited and

and many of these beliefs we don't think of as beliefs.

We're just doing the matter-of-fact things where they're thinking and when we meditate in a sense

we really don't need to believe in anything.

We're very, very little.

That's nothing about that's not here and now.

And so the radical simplicity is to say to if you're thinking about the future, thinking about the

past, thinking about fantasy future thinking about the past thinking about the fantasy thinking about

something which is not here to in a loving way the delightful way, say no, thank you. Not now.

Not now. And just know that you're not rejecting thinking about these things, just not now. No thank you and in doing so you're also letting go the beliefs

that you're supposed to think or it's useful to think or there's value in thinking about these things,

which of course there's a time and place for that, but not now.

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