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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org.

Thank you. So I came back to sit down here. And the biggest feeling was just appreciation and gratitude

that you're here.

Some of you have been here all day, some of you have come in the course of the day,

and I kind of feel very gratified or grateful that we could have this time together this way

and to be able to join you here at the end.

So to give a talk,

and the funny thing about giving Dharma talks is they're not supposed to be about themselves.

And if anything, I think a Dharma talk is supposed to be pointing to something in you,

something that's possible for you.

At the minimum it points you to your practice,

encourages in your practice, inspires it, guides it.

Ideally, aarmatalk

is a...

can function as kind of a mirror

in which you see yourself better.

Rather than

receiving information from abroad,

that this is how things are. It's more like supporting,

helping you to see how things actually are for you. And that the goal of a Dharma talk and maybe a Dharma teacher is to help you become your own teacher,

to help you be able to read your own heart, your own mind, your own experience,

...