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

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Thank you. Hello everyone, and welcome to our meditation together.

And I'll begin by referring to the idea that's often taught in Buddhism, that everything is impermanent.

And what that means in essence is that everything is changing.

Some things are impermanent because they don't last,

but some things are inconstant.

The only thing that's constant is there constant movement and change.

And when we sit to meditate, we're entering into a world of change,

a world of inconstancy.

But this world of change and inconstancy in meditation

does not have to be random or chaotic.

We are putting the conditions together

to where the change that unfolds is a healthy one, is a

beneficial one, that the change is oriented towards being organized, oriented towards

gathering together,

gathering together to be settled instead of scattered, to be organized instead of being fragmented,

to be centered as opposed to being decentered or, or, and we can feel this movement inside of us,

sometimes in psychological ways, we can feel physically that we lean towards what we want. We pull back from what we don't

want. We, the mind wanders off, we say, and it feels like it goes far away. The mind can be

scattered. The body can be restless, which is a lot of movement. The restless body can be

feel disjointed and not working in harmony. And the body can feel very centered and

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