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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Good evening. Can you hear me Great. Sorry to be late. By the end of these five week series,

you'll know that there's no need to wait for anything because you can just practice

which that's what you were doing very nicely. Maybe I disturbed you.

Once many years ago when I was kind of learning this practice disturbed you

once many years ago when I was kind of learning this practice. I was with a teacher who said if you're

waiting for something to happen you miss the boat because his idea was you can always just show up for

now whatever that is but I'm sorry to be late and I'm out of a habit of teaching in the evening.

I used to do this all the time before the pandemic.

And this is the first time since the pandemic

that I started this class that I started teaching in the evening.

So I just thought of habit and I was busy at home.

Good things.

So here we are the second week of this inter invitation class and the second week we talk about mindfulness of the body and some people are challenged with their body right away when they practice meditation.

Sooner or later most people are challenged in some way with discomfort in the body.

But even without having to practice with discomfort, the body is this wonderful arena for practice. In fact, it's maybe the central kind of arena, so much so that some people

will say that the real temple, the Buddhist temple or the real monastery, is your own body.

That learning to kind of live in your body, through your body, and it was certainly

surprised for me when I started practicing Buddhism how much being in the body being embodied

was emphasized.

And over and over again we would various ways use our bodies, bring attention to our bodies that evoked a very strong sense of embodiment.

And there's even Buddhist texts that say

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