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

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Good morning, everyone.

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So good day, good morning, afternoon, evening for sun and we'll go ahead and start with you know a little bit on feeling tones or Vedana of thinking and Veda Nye is a poly word that's translated as feeling tone.

It's a very fundamental way that we experience the world through our senses and through our mind.

When a sensation arrives, it's either pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant or unpleasant. Some people

call it neutral. It's immediate. It happens right away, and it's much simpler than an emotion.

It's important because this is how clinging arises.

We experience something pleasant,

and if we don't pay attention, we often just want more of it,

and we start grasping at trying to get more.

But staying mindful of the level of the feeling tone and keep us from grasping at what's pleasant, at what we enjoy.

And conversely, the same is true, something's unpleasant.

It's very easy to fall into pushing it away, getting rid of it.

For the first 10 minutes of this meditation, we'll emphasize noticing the feeling tone of

our experience.

Just as simple is where we feel pleasant, unpleasant, or neither.

And don't worry about being correct.

Sometimes it's like, well, it's almost pleasant or, you know, that's fine.

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