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

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Good evening. Can we turn up the volume just a little bit so let's see I have to talk now

to hear how the volume goes, yeah.

Is this okay?

Can you hear okay in the back?

So good evening.

And tonight I want to talk a little bit about something that often we don't think about,

neither in our daily life nor in relationship to our meditation practice, and that is the attitude that we're bringing.

And in particular I'm going to talk about attitude that we bring to our meditation practice but it's not only about that.

I mean, of course the attitude that we bring has an impact, but often it's settle and often we're not even aware of the attitude that we're bringing and what impact it can have.

And we're not even aware like is there an alternative is so than the way

than the attitude that we're bringing. So I'm going to define attitude as the way

in which we are relating to our experience, you know, like do you have an attitude?

You know, like do you have a like a chip on your shoulder right is kind of like an attitude in which people might show up and

interact with people that's kind of chip on their shoulder in which they are

you know just ready to be offended and ready to defend themselves or defend

something that's important to them.

So the attitude we might be the way in which we feel about or think about or respond to our experiences.

Because like for example, another example might be and I'm sure all of us I have

this example it's so funny that we have this expression you know to wake up on the

wrong side of the bed.

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