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

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Thank you. Hello and welcome and one of the approaches to meditation always is to keep it very simple

with the idea that we are simplifying our preoccupations, simplifying our

what we're caught up in, simplifying ourselves in many ways,

so that we're able to see our experience free of the lenses of pre-existing concepts we have.

We can see our experience without the filter of ideas and preferences,

without the ideas of shoulds and shouldn'ts and without expectation,

that we're simplifying to become fresh,

a fresh awareness, a fresh perspective,

a fresh seeing of our experience,

even to the extent that it's almost as if we're seeing for the first time.

Seeing for the first time and in doing so find it phenomenally interesting,

amazing, wondrous, and that we're curious, interested in knowing what is here,

as if we've never known it before,

even something as simple as the breathing.

But the emphasis is on the process of simplification,

not the process of seeing,

at least in the beginning.

So assuming a posture of meditation,

that's right for you. And to think of the posture as a posture as an invitation to become simply here,

to be grounded here, to be settled here.

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