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

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So good evening, everyone. Welcome. And maybe, as we did last week, if you have any questions you want to ask, this might be a good time.

Some people might still be coming and to start officially a little bit.

Do you have any questions about what I taught last week or about your meditation?

Up here on the stage?

Yeah.

If you can use the mic, please. Can you hear me?

So one of the things that I don't seem to be able to do

is to be able to observe my thoughts.

I guess the thoughts or the emotions maybe are so strong

that I just, you know, I'm hopped on that train

and I don't realize it till I kind of come off the train so I was wondering if you had suggestions.

They called the closer because maybe my hearings are so good so I really have to have get the

like yeah so I'm not able to observe my thoughts.

Yeah.

I guess maybe I'm just so attached to them.

I was wondering if you had any suggestions.

Yeah, I don't know what to say. I mean, then I wouldn't worry about it.

But do you notice when you're lost in thought? I notice afterwards, after I've kind of got

off the train, I can say, okay, I've probably spent. How long do you spend on the train? It could be 30 seconds it could

be two minutes could be five minutes so one part one way to deal with it is just be

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