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

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So to say a few words about the practice, it's a common, you know, where

our mindfulness practice is kind of the core practice we do here. And it's common to add a descriptive, kind of like

adjective in front of mindfulness, characterize how we're mindful. And the kind of the adjective I'd like to put in front of it today is tranquility,

tranquil mindfulness, that we are looking for how to be aware in a tranquil way, not in a forceful way, not kind of engineering

ourselves into tranquility, not to override ourselves in some way that's artificial, but to give ourselves

time to be attentive to what's happening now, to not be in a hurry, to not be trying to, you know, have a to-do list in being

mindful, you know, like I got to check off every in-breath and out-breath in my to-do list.

As soon as I check it off, I'm ready for the next task.

The idea is to take it like you have all the time in the world

when you do this practice. Like I said, not to, sit down to meditate, just kind of like whatever

attitude you would have, like, great, now I have all the time in the world to do this. Do

walking meditation. I have all the time in the world and even if you only have a few minutes

that's kind of like this tranquil attitude.

How could you bring that along in a way that's realistic?

And one of the things to look for then

is how might you already be tranquil?

Or how might it already be tranquil?

Or how might it be possible to find some calm,

bring it about, because it's kind of close by,

it's not a difficult thing to find, maybe.

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