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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So good morning on this Monday morning. Good morning, for those of

or good day.

For those of you, it's already, the morning has already gone by.

And so this is the fifth week, this introduction to mindfulness meditation.

And the general idea of mindfulness is very simple.

And I think maybe at the very beginning of this series,

I try to offer the simplicity of it. And the instructions that I've given since then might seem

like it makes it complicated but it's more like describing the territory of what we could experience if we're available and open to the present moment,

and the idea is to be present simply for that.

Don't have to make it complicated.

Don't have to do a lot of things except to be present.

But we know what to be present for.

So we began with breathing, being present for breathing.

That's stabilizing, it's connecting, it's wonderful, for many people a wonderful beginning.

For some people it's not.

And then there are other home basis for attention.

But generally the way we teach in a generic way is to have breathing be the home base. And then as we go along, the body speaks

up and the body becomes more you know speaks up and wants to

be heard and so then we can let go of breathing and then we the very simple attention to recognize

and feel what's happening is with the experience of the body.

And as we go along, there might be emotions that arise.

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