People routinely approach mindfulness with the left brain's subtlety of an elephant in the china shop. A beginner student experienced significant shifts in his outlook on life and his sense of wellbeing and calmness. These shifts manifested subtly as the hallmark of profound brain rewiring in progress. However, he was disappointed at first, because in his own words: "I expected fireworks and the heavens to split open, which blinded me to seeing the transformations that are really going on." He was reminded that he does not see the grass grow when he watches it, even though it does.

Although this lecture is fully accessible even if you didn't attend the last one, it picks up where the last lecture left off. Faced with the complexity of who we are, what are simple, practical steps we can take to embody mindfulness both formally through meditation and informally in our busy daily lives, and meet the challenge of living a meaningful life?

As a novice, where do you start? As someone with experience who lost touch with mindfulness, how do you come back? As an experienced practitioner of mindfulness, how do you remain fresh? What are the simple and beautiful baby steps that remind us we are eternal beginners and that never fail to bring us back to what matters? How can we tap into the simplicity of this transformative path and remain curious, fresh, patient and tenacious on our one-thousand-year-long journey called life?

Throughout the lecture we will practice what we preach ...