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

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There is a, you know, it was a huge emphasis in our tradition of a simple, mindful recognition of what's

happening in the present moment. But one of the purposes of that is to support your thinking

mind to get quieter. And one of the purposes of having a thinking mind get quieter, so you can have a

simple mindfulness of the present moment. So they kind of support each other. And ordinarily,

many people are thinking a lot, so much so that the way that they view the world, see everything themselves,

the world around them, people, is usually through the lens or under the influence of what

they're kind of spinning around in their thoughts, their ideas, all that. And there's bias and desires and fears and all kinds of things that kind of get

overlaid in how we see the world, how we see ourselves.

And then as we quiet the mind enough, it doesn't mean we have to stop thinking entirely, but the thinking gets quieter,

softer. And so we start seeing, knowing ourselves and knowing what's around us, with greater

clarity. We see things for what they are, rather than seeing them with how we project our

concerns and judgments on the situation. So this quieting of the mind and kind of coming,

and one of the ways it supports that is to find yourself at rest in your body and have an orientation

to meditation that the orientation is, let's not spend a lot of time thinking.

We don't have to fight your thinking. It's not wrong to think.

But let's orient yourself to being calm, to being settled,

in such a way that it's kind of like you're getting cozy here in your body,

in your felt sense.

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