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

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So I wonder if any of you have any questions that you'd like to ask me. Thank you. You're going to see. And that In the darma, classically in Buddhism, there is an idea of trying to make good karma.

And one of the ways to make good karma is to ask questions. Yes, please. In the interest of generating good karma, I'll ask a question, is it on? Okay.

Gail, I wonder if you could just talk a little bit more

about what you were talking about this morning.

Mindfulness of emotions,

feeling the, experiencing them through the sensations of your body.

And then, I can't remember the rest of my question.

You mean the morning on YouTube or the morning?

Yeah, the morning on YouTube.

Yeah. So more about experiencing sensations in the body and in relationship to

to emotions. Emotions. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that if we had no sensations in our body if we kind of like this you know unplugged all the

sensations in our body we wouldn't know what emotions were having we wouldn't know

what we're feeling. We might have ideas, but I think that we

wouldn't really be hard to discern. I mean, even so, sometimes different emotions have a lot of similar,

sometimes body activation,

but we can feel the difference between,

you know, anger and alarm or something.

And so the idea is to, and feel the sensations, feel in the body what's been activated through the emotion.

And one of the advantages of that is that that's always in the present moment.

What we're thinking about, the story we're telling ourselves,

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