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

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Few words about the practice.

So the simplest way of talking about mindfulness is to be present to our present moment experience.

A little bit more complicated is to say to be present with attention, to attend to a present

moment experience as it's occurring. Another way, another thing that the

avenue for helping us stay present is if you slightly prioritize in the present in an embodied way,

what feels nice or feels good about being present?

What is it that feels nice or good in your body about just sitting in a stable posture,

meditation posture? What does it feel like that's good to be kind of grounded if you're on the

floor or in the chair? What is it about that feels good,

about not being involved in the usual activities of life and just sitting quietly, having a

Sabbath, having a vacation, having an alternative time to just really be kind of intimate with

yourself. What is it that feels good about having a body quiet and still?

What might feel good about just the vitality of life coursing through your body?

Even if you feel lousy in some way, challenged in some way,

which it's easy to have in this life of ours.

Not to deny it, not to push it away,

but to contextualize it, to hold it,

to understand that there's more going on

than what we're preoccupied by.

And so it's kind of spread the attention a little bit wider into where it feels good,

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