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

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So hello and welcome and I feel I find a little amazing that this is the 24th talk of these 25 on introduction to

mindfulness meditation. I feel fortunate to be able to spend this time on these

the basic instructions and develop it this way. Thank you for the opportunity. And so today one of the hallmarks of mindfulness practice is its simplicity. There's a lot of instructions that can be given.

For those instructions should be considered more descriptive

than prescriptive, in the sense that they describe what we come across as we're present attentive

attuned to our experience. The instructions in a sense are a map of your, the

range of, important ranges, ranges of your experience that you then bring the simplicity of

mindfulness to or say it differently you allow experience to come to you and then you have the simplicity of recognition.

This is how it is.

This is how it is. It's this way now. And you might try this little sentence as you practice either saying it in your mind or just

recognizing it silently that this is the way it is now. This is the experience now. Keep it that

simple but the word now at the end, it kind of reminds you that it's just the experience

of now, it's not forever. It'll change in some way. It'll shift and change, become something else,

become in a different way.

This is the experience now.

In the course of this now, sometimes we experience breathing, sometimes the body sensation,

sometimes emotions, sometimes thoughts, sometimes sounds. And what I'll introduce today is attitude.

The general mood or attitude with which we're being mindful. Mindful often is not so simple. We come along with subtle

or big agendas like we want something to happen. We want something to go away. We want to attain something. We want to hold on to

something. An attitude of this is difficult or attitude of, you know, this is too easy and I am a

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