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

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It's quite something, yeah, hopefully. I think I'll change microphones for later, but for now I'll just say a few words.

It's so common that we, while we're meditating or actually just in our daily life that we notice

Oh, I'm actually somewhere else in my thoughts. I'm in the future, I'm in the past. I'm in a complete fantasy, rehearsing something, remembering something.

It's just, of course, so common.

So what would it be like just for this morning to just part of practice just to when you realize oh I've

been lost in thought just to say oh here I'm here.

And maybe it can be helpful to feel your feet on the ground or feel your,

yeah, feel your feet on the ground.

Is it like, no, I'm here now at this moment.

And we just start to notice how much,

so often we're not here,

not in the present moment.

So this is just like a simple way

just to help bring the mind to the same place

where the body is to kind of get these aligned and in the same place.

So regarding the schedule, one thing I forgot to and is