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

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And to offer you some practice or orientation for the practice,

it can be sometimes quite lovely and quite informative, quite supportive, to understand that there are two sides to the practice.

There's what you offer and that what reality offers you.

It's the practice that you do and the practice that just arises from you

if you make room for it.

And what I mean by that is that awareness or attention

is something we can do intentionally

and something that we do unintentionally

through much of the day.

And we could become aware of things

without intending to or wanting to

and without consciously involved in the act of attention.

So I imagine most of you today, you know, opened that front door of ours and the wonderful music for our meditation time. And so you

would have, you know, probably grabbed the handle of the door handle and turned it and opened up

but you did not probably didn't think now I'm going to be aware of a door handle I'm going to

stay aware of the door handle so I touch it it's something like that sometimes just kind of you're

aware of it but you don't give a lot of thought to it.

You might be, what you're thinking about is what it's going to be like to meditate in here,

or is the room on the practice discussion sheet or something. And the opening that door, you're aware of it, but it's not part of your conscious reflection, thinking, organizing your life around

the door handle, it's just you're aware of it,

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