Intro to Mindfulness Meditation (1 of 4) ~ Breath

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This talk was given by Diana Clark on 2024.06.24 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* Video of this talk is available at: https://youtube.com/live/kUAYdMdqXgY. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
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0:10.0	Okay, so I think we'll get started. So welcome, welcome everybody. Welcome to
0:19.0	I am C. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Diana Clerk. I teach here regularly on Monday nights.
0:28.0	Except sometimes I'm off teaching
0:35.0	a beautiful retreat down at IRC.
0:39.0	It's our sister center.
0:41.0	We have a retreat center down in Santa Cruz, and it's a beautiful thing to be able to offer.
0:47.0	It was a seven-day silent residential retreat.
0:50.0	Maybe I'll just say a few words about me.
0:55.0	I found meditation in a time of my life when I felt like you know from the outside kind of like
1:06.3	look at my life and you would think like oh it's you know she has everything that she
1:10.5	needs I felt like I had everything I needed but somehow I didn't feel
1:15.8	happy. I felt like there's got to be something more as it I had a certain amount of professional success. I have a PhD in biochemistry and I don't know I just had achieved all these things and somehow felt like my life was missing something
1:37.1	and that I was like disconnected from my life in some way and
1:41.8	Disconnected from the people that I was close to that were close to me.
1:46.3	I just felt like somehow I had followed all the rules. But yet my life, I don't't know just wasn't turning out the way that I
1:55.8	expected or wanted and it was just I don't know it wasn't like I actually intended to become a meditator it just something
2:07.0	that grew out of a yoga class and a casual comment by somebody I knew in this yoga class so quite something and I hate to say this but I'm going to ask you to not sit right there because you're underneath the camera there you go. Thank you Nicole. So let's see if there's anything else I need to say about me. I've done a lot of retreat practice.
2:38.0	I have spent cumulatively a couple of years on retreat, silently meditating all day long.
2:48.9	And it's changed my life, completely changed my life in such a beautiful way and I'm very happy to be
2:55.3	here to be sharing with you some of what I've discovered what I've learned from
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