The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

What I'd like to do in this talk is explore a bit of the essence of our meditation practice,

what's sometimes called as the two wings of meditation.

And as many of you know, because meditations become so mainstream at this point, there's a

distinctive Western imprint on it.

And this is an example, this ad I found a couple of years ago.

It says, you know, this question is, why don't people meditate given all the benefits?

And then the response is, well, it just takes too much time.

But what would you say if we told you that with just a press of a button, you could have

access to the same deep, highly pleasurable, extremely beneficial meditation states as those

with decades of experience?

And you get the same results in much, much less time plus a host of other life enhancing

benefits.

Well, thanks to these CDs, you can achieve precisely the same electrical brainwave patterns

of profoundly deep meditation, safely, simply and effortlessly.

A few minutes of your day is all you need to transform your life.

That's Western, right?

Some of you know, one of my first places I went to study meditation was the Insight Meditation

Society of the Barry Massachusetts, called IMS.

And one of the letters that they got addressed to them was addressed to the Instant Meditation

Society.

I thought that was appropriate.

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