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

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Good morning everyone. Welcome. One of the little bit continuing themes I've done the last couple of Sundays here.

Are I loud enough for you all?

Yeah.

So a little bit continuing the themes from the last Sunday, I want to talk more about the body or our bodies,

mindfulness to the bodies.

It's surprising to me how much in this 2,500 years ago the Buddha emphasized the

tremendous value of being present being attentive to your own body.

And there's a lot of being attentive to your own body.

And there's a lot of a lot we can discover in our body.

There's a tremendous support that the Barbades give to being present and attentive to our lives and to ourselves. And one of the things that's interesting is that for in these ancient teachings the word that's most commonly used for body is Kaya K A Y A and it kind of has some of the same range of meetings as the English word body in that

it doesn't just refer to a physical body but it also refers to an assembly of things.

We might talk about a body of work of an author

who's written a lot.

We might talk about a student body,

the students of a school, and body of water, which, you know, so there's a range of things

that have collected together and held together.

And with implying that this body of ours is an assemblage of

assembly or assemblage of all kinds of different things that come together. And

what's get more interesting in this ancient teaching is that there's

an understanding that the way we experience the body is variable. And it's almost as if we have different bodies at different times.

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