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

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To say something about the practice for a couple of minutes.

Sometimes when people teach mindfulness in our particular lineage,

there can be a lot of explanation, like there's a lot to do.

And that's not so useful.

I mean, all the teachings are useful, but to get busy doing them all is too much.

And the simplicity of it could be represented by a wonderful form of aspect of mindfulness.

And that is that mindfulness is more bodyfulness than it is mindfulness.

This more process of the mind entering to the body so that we're embodied, so they were bringing a kind of a state of presence or a state

of attentiveness to our experience through the body. And the body has a couple of characteristics that are really important

for this practice. One is that it's all your body as opposed to your mind, your body is always in the present moment.

So to ground yourself in your body is a way of being in the present.

And that, and the body is in some ways, it's kind of simple,

the simple experiences of the body. And so it's the mind of the body.

And so it's the mind that makes things complicated.

We think about things and analyze things and expect things

and wonder what to do or confused about things.

But the idea in mindfulness practice is not to live too much,

little bit's okay, but little in this world of thinking and analyzing and figuring things out.

If we're in this, in the mind a lot, what we're trying to do is to invite the mind to be partnered with the body, to bring the body and mind together

so that we're operating together.

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