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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So one of the, I think, wonderful questions to ask yourself if you're a mindfulness practitioner is the question

what are you ignoring here and now?

What are you not paying attention to here and now. What is it that you're not

that you're not including, that if you included,

you would actually be more here? that kind of simple example of such a thing

would be that maybe some of you have had this experience,

something equivalent to,

maybe you're having a difficult conversation with someone and you're caught up in the conversation

and all the things.

And then maybe the person you're with or someone else observing just as you excuse me for a moment

But I just want to name something it seems like both of you are really tense

And as soon as someone names it, everyone relaxes, oh yeah, we are.

It's something, the shoulders sink a little bit, they settle back more, okay.

And so they weren't including in the attention. All the

tension they had because the conversation was so important the words had to

be said and but how the person was was not included. So the same way when

we said to meditate or practice mindfulness in daily life asking the question for yourself

step back to yourself and get the kind of the observer's view and what's what am I not

including what am I not seeing here of what's happening here right here and now?

And in what ways maybe are we ahead of ourselves because we're thinking about the future of what's going to happen or what we want to have

happened. To what degree are we kind of behind ourselves because we're still living in the

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