I could use mind or heart interchangeably in this talk. I’ll mostly use mind tonight, but just as a reminder, in Buddhism, we use the work ‘citta’ which translates as the heart mind; the understanding that our emotions are mind states.

When you have a strong emotion you feel it in your body, and even subtle emotions, if you’re embodied, if you’re tuned in, you feel them in your body. There is not a real separation between the mind and the body - the heart mind.

This practice we do, that we call mindfulness, is also called Vipassana or ‘insight meditation’ – training the mind to see clearly –insight of seeing reality and seeing clearly and learning to respond more appropriately to what we are seeing, what we are experiencing, and what we know to be true.