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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone and welcome to this new continuation of the Introduction to Meditation Series and for this current series

that we're coming to the last week in the last week of it.

And two announcements.

One is that probably I'll start a new series on Monday.

Maybe it's Introduction to Meditation Part 2 or maybe we call

it the intermediate instructions. But I think it'd be nice to continue on this and build on what we've done these weeks.

And the second is that there was a time we used to do some community meetings on Zoom, usually on Fridays at the end of the week.

And I haven't had the chance to do that for a long time, but I do have this Friday.

So I'll post a Zoom link on IMC's What's New and to and then I will also announce it again and I'll post it in the chat on Friday.

And we'll go there right after this meeting on YouTube and those of you like to come together will have some time for maybe

me for me to give some updates maybe for you to ask me some questions, and maybe for some breakout groups so some of

you can meet each other and have small conversations.

So, so. So as for today the continuation of practice, the deepening of mindfulness practice, is greatly helped by wisdom.

Wisdom is the quality of understanding that supports us from, that kind of protects us from getting entangled,

being caught with what our experience is or what's happening.

We don't get reactive, we don't get attached, we don't get resentful, we don't hostile to,

but rather it what supports us to meet things with a profound respect, with a profound

respect for ourselves, where we can kind of hold our seat,

take our place in a clear upright way

and, um, and, with kindness and maybe with wisdom because we've taken the time to really know what's

happening here and now.

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