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

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and And so this week's theme is recognizing the after effects or the benefits, the experiential benefits of letting go, of release, of non-clinging.

And... of release of non-clinging.

And one of them is related to a term that,

or an aspect of mindfulness that sometimes I like to emphasize, that being mindful is when we're mindful of something, we're giving room for that thing, making space for it, giving

room to it.

Maybe we've all had some experience of being in a very crowded place where we felt kind of hemmed in.

And then we go to some place where we feel like we have lots of room and we can sometimes we call it

having breathing room even and then sometimes within lots of room we can just

relax and something inside of us settles because when we're clusterphobic

when things are kind of pressing against us it's more difficult to relax.

So part of mindfulness is to make room, give room, breathing room to our breathing

to our sense experiences of our body, to our emotions, even to thinking, though that's

a little bit more tricky to give room for it is to not just give room for it just to continue on kind of spinning out,

but making room so that we're not fueling it anymore. We're not squeezing it out.

So if we keep our foot on the gas pedal, then the car will go faster and faster. But if we back off and

give room for the pedal, our foot is no longer on the pedal and then the car slows down.

So it's like that we're thinking we give room to it so that we're not

perpetuating, not fueling it anymore.

So to assume a meditation posture, posture.

And there is a way of sometimes using a posture that makes us feel bigger. So for those sitting upright, it's a sit a little

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