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

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So hello everyone and welcome.

And I feel fortunate to be able to offer you some of the share some of the wonderfulness of this practice that I've been doing for so long.

And one of the things that's quite wonderful is

developing the capacity to do next to nothing in meditation.

So not try to attain anything or make something happen,

except to be aware, to be present, to be here.

And sometimes it's pretty clear in meditation

that the mind wants to be anywhere but here.

The distracting mind wanders off in all kinds of directions and ways,

or it's clear that the mind is aversive to here,

doesn't want to be with what's happening here and now.

But to be able to be here with our present moment

experience, and neither for or against, neither avoiding or, you know, a certain way, you know,

diving in to penetrate it or to,

but simply to be still.

And as we're still,

to notice, or to be more simple, simply to watch the unfolding of experience.

And one of the purposes for samadhi, for developing concentration,

is to have the stability, to have the settledness, to just stay here

with the experience. And so much learning happens when you just sit and watch. An example that I heard many years ago

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