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

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Hello and welcome.

Welcome to this next 30 minutes

where we'll meditate together

over this medium of electronics that we have,

that connects us in a way that respects or acknowledges

the vast web of humanity that we're part of

and that has been interconnected for a long time between people and people,

the seven, nine kind of layers of separation that used to connect us is now maybe much smaller.

Thank you for being here.

And today, going back to basics, and basics is not meant only for beginners.

In some ways, the longer we've meditated,

the more we appreciate the basics as being quite profound.

And today, we want to talk about mindfulness of the body and the body and mind are not so distinct

it's hard to really tease them apart especially in our experience of the body in our experience of the mind.

If we step back and talk about it, think about it,

we might be able to come up with concepts and ideas that keep them distinct.

But in our direct experience, here and now,

and the body is the way we experience the body, sense it, feel it, is inseparable

from the mind. For one reason is that we don't know exactly the beginning and end of the mind for one reason is that we don't know exactly the beginning and end of the mind,

but perhaps we can think of it as being this inclusive of all the neurological connections

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