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

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So welcome. Welcome everybody.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Diana Clark.

I teach here on Monday nights.

I've taught this intro to mindfulness course many times.

And Gil asked me to step in for him this week while he goes off and does something else.

So it's a pleasure to be here with you all, and I'm so

happy about this week's topic. This is like one of my favorite topics. So hopefully we can

have some fun with it and explore with it. In a moment, I'll ask if there's any questions or comments from last week, but before I do that,

I want to just do like a little bit of an introduction or an overview or maybe even a tiny little bit of a review

of what the preceding weeks have been about.

Maybe I'll start something with like the 30,000-foot view.

We might say that mindfulness is about having a shift in our relationship to what's happening.

A shift in our relationship to what's happening. A shift in our relationship to what's happening. And that requires

two things that we know what's happening. And also that we are aware of our relationship to it.

And so this mindfulness is this way in which can we just hold it, can we be with it,

as opposed to trying to make it be something different, insisting that whatever it is I'm

experiencing isn't quite right, dang it, and we're trying to push and shove, or something,

right, to just get it

to be more to our liking to match more of our preferences.

Something beautiful can happen when we do shift our relationship, when we allow things to be

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