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

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And then I'll say a few words about the practice before we start to move on.

One of the concepts and words that I'm very fond of to associate with this practice we do of mindfulness

is the word ease, EAS. And to find a sense of ease with our experience rather than being a

quantumist rather than being I mean those those are good too but rather than

using the concept of equanimity or acceptance or calm or non-reactivity

I love the concept of being at ease and to use the sense of ease as a reference point for mindfulness.

So if you don't have ease, then the idea is to be mindful of what that lack of ease is.

And then to be easy with that. is the

the variations of the word ease is the variations of the word ease

is the variations of the word ease up.

So how can I ease up on this? How can I be easy with this? How can I

ease in? Like, how can I ease in? Like, rather than kind of the mind is drifting off and then you know the direct

assault back on the breath you know jerk the mind back and be here how can I ease back

into the present moment ease back into the present moment, ease back into breathing.

And if things are difficult, how can that be easy with it?

Not going to ease up on it.

Some of us, if there's difficulty,

we'll ride close up and be preoccupied and everything

is so claustrophobic or everything is so important you know and like I shouldn't

be feeling angry when I meditate

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