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

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The Talk Meditation. meditation.

Mindfulness.

Sometimes I like to think of mindfulness as a light

and we can either sometimes turn the switch on and turn the light on or sometimes it just kind of turns itself off and we have to turn it back on again. But it's so different. It's kind of like to be able to be in the dark, we don't see much. We don't see much of our life, how we live it, what's happening now, turn on the light of awareness and we're not just seeing much more. And we're not just seeing more, but we're not just seeing more, but we're also living in it more.

So this light that of mindfulness mindfulness sometimes I think of it as a heat lamp. I've

been in bathrooms where they have a heat lamp in the above view and if you turn that one on not only you get light but you get this warmth radiating down and

so then if you stand underneath the heat lamp on a cold day, it just feels really good.

You're gonna soak in the heat and the warmth,

then it kind of penetrates into some fuller way.

So the same thing with this light of awareness.

It has, maybe it doesn't have a warmth,

some people might call it warmth,

but it has a kind of a suffuse of quality to it

if we kind of relax into the way that all our senses can become alive and active

enough when we're present and aware.

And so to not eternal light, but to kind of immerse yourself in that light, like you would immerse yourself in the warmth coming from the heat lamp.

There's a way in which we participate with the whole body

when we turn on the light.

And we kind of like almost like the whole body is now more present, more complete, more inclusive.

And so one of the words that sometimes used for the concentration factor of mindfulness is immersion to immerse ourselves

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