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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So good morning everyone, everyone. Welcome.

And I find myself sitting here somewhat quiet. So the background of our discussion, meditation today is these four, these ten reflections or ten foundational and foundational aspects of a human life that it's useful to think about and reflect on.

And today the topic is purpose and in relationship to purpose I would like to talk about confidence

that wherever our purpose is confidence that whatever we have to do it wholeheartedly, to see that whatever we have to do in the moment, that what's important, one of the aspects of purpose

is not the purpose of the activity, but the purpose of the activity but the purpose of doing something wholeheartedly.

Our life is too precious to do things half-heartedly and even if it's a mundane task even if it's a and not such an

important thing that we're doing seemingly that the fact that we're doing it is important and so to the doing the fact that we are have the ability, the capacity to engage in something, if we're

cleaning the kitchen, that to not do it halfheartedly, but to, there's something very profound about giving ourselves

fully to the task at hand as if it's the most important thing, even if it's not so important in and of itself. Our ability to be alive at any given moment

and give ourselves to our activity. That is important. And so that is the task of the

meditation is to give yourself to the meditation wholeheartedly.

And... And what would that look like for you?

To just this task to do it, this is the part for these 30 minutes the purpose is this is the purpose not to

strain to strain is to do things in a certain kind of way half-heartedly

because we're leaving out so much of who we are.

But to do it in a relaxed way,

open way, inclusive way of all of who we are, bringing as much as who we are

here into the experience. There's purpose to that. There's a way of fighting fulfillment, not in the task we're doing, but in

how we do it, the freedom we find to give ourselves to it in a full wholehearted way.

So to assume meditation posture and part of the value of meditation posture is to do a posture that feels to you that you can now give yourself to the task of meditation, that you can now give yourself to the task of meditation that you can you really can be present for it in a nice way and

So a posture of posture of presence being present. gently closing your eyes.

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