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

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The words about the practice, as I was meditating just now before, I was struck by the huge divide there can be in our lives between when we feel connected to ourselves,

connected to hear really well, and when we're disconnected. And one of the ways to be disconnected

is to be spending too much time in thinking, too much time we say

gloically in English in the head. And so we've caught up in our concerns, cut up in our,

you know, preoccupations, our fears, our fantasies, our desires, and just spinning. And some people

can describe that as the mind just spinning out of control

because all these thoughts we have.

And sometimes it's fueled by the way that people are on devices these days.

My kind of theory is that there's something about being on a device,

even reading email or being on a website,

that it's mostly being processed through this above the head, above the neck kind of operating system,

and through the eyes and the ramifications it has on the mind and thoughts and ideas and concerns and that fuels continues

the spinning out and what it does it disconnects us to our from our bodies to be deeply connected

is to be connected through our bodies some of the most wonderful things about human life

love joy peace are some of the most wonderful things about human life, love, joy, peace, are embodied experiences.

It's hard to experience them if you just from the neck up in your thoughts and ideas and past and future.

And so one of the ways we practice with this is that when you find yourself primarily

involved in thoughts, whether it's words or whether it's images of visions of different things

that you might have, if you find that's going on, don't dismiss it, don't push it away, Don't try to immediately let go of it. But rather,

spend some time to feel your way to recognize how it keeps you divided, how it keeps you

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