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

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About practicing this morning.

So, um, the, um, when I was a kid, I spent a lot of time in the water.

And one of the lights of being in the water was this wonderful rhythm of being at the shore, the ocean, the sea, was the waves of

be coming in. And they weren't particularly, they weren't at all scary, but they were enough

that it was really fun to it as they came to dive under them and come up the other side.

And it was this rhythm of diving in and then surfacing and then being there, standing there for a while for the next wave, then diving under

again. And I love this rhythm of this going on. And so life has these rhythms that we do.

And it's nice to think in terms of rhythms or the unfolding

and how nothing exists in itself.

Nothing exists separated from time and how things unfold.

And so there's a rhythm of sleeping and waking up.

Some of us, at the age, we take naps,

and that's part of the rhythm.

And dip into a nap for 10 minutes and come out.

And then there's the rhythm of eating.

And for some people who sit down and kind of to really eat in a respectful way for you and the food,

it's a dipping down.

Okay, now's it time for the meal, as opposed to having all your devices on and shoveling in while you're, you know, then you're not part

of some, then you're, I don't know what rhythm you're doing then. But if you stop, just to dip in

to the food and then dip out and then you live your life before the next meal, there's a dipping

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