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 welcome to the meditation and one of the characteristics of mindfulness meditation that's meant to be characteristic is simplicity.

And now we're, I think, on the 19th part of this 25 part introduction to mindfulness

meditation that's a lot of instructions and lent itself to the idea that it's

complicated a lot to remember.

But one way of understanding this instructions is that you've come into a new park, it's a large park, and you've never been to it before, and you have

a guide, and the guide takes you to the different parts of the park.

And so you know where they are, you know what they are, you know how to relate to each part,

park, part of the park. And so next time you go you go alone and now you're not

lost you're not searching for the way you just know okay know, okay, now I'm here, now I'm here, and so now it's got

become very simple. Each part of the park is a simple thing to be in because you're well familiar with the territory.

So there's a lot of instructions but it's kind of like just laying out the map of the territory and the mindfulness is meant to be very simple and so each of the

different parts come into focus at different times when you're in different parts of your

inner park.

And so part of that simplicity is this radically simple just knowing what the experience is.

And that's how we started this series of the very first teaching, the simplicity of just knowing what is happening.

But now you know can hopefully recognize more of what's happening, the

richness, the different components of what's happening.

And as you kind of understand the ecosystem of the present moment, it's easier to be aware simply, just know it.

Oh, this is what's happening.

Know it.

Now there's a thought, just know the thought and in the

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