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

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Another sitting meditation, I'd like to offer some words about practice.

Some things that you might think about, ponder,

or maybe it just pops into your thoughts, or maybe you completely forget about it.

It's whichever way is okay.

And that is this idea, this notion that there can be what we might call like an aperture, like an opening,

that is our awareness.

So we might think about having a small opening where it's maybe zoomed in is another way to think about it. And this happens naturally,

for example, when there's like some bodily discomfort, some pain in the knee. There can be a way

in which the only thing that exists in the universe is this throbbing. And then maybe there's a sense like,

how can I get rid of this, or something like that.

Or sometimes there's a way in which the aperture can be really open,

and there can be a sense of, wow, there's a lot of stuff happening,

or there's a sense of spaciousness.

There's this way in which there can be not a lot of space,

just one thing zoomed in, having that one experience,

or more zoomed out with a big aperture, having a bigger experience.

Or maybe, I don't know if that's the right word,

you can explore this smaller experience, bigger experience, zoomed in, zoomed out.

But for practice this morning, just notice how this changes naturally.

This is just a movement that's just naturally happening.

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