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

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All right. like in the back it's okay.

So there's so many different ways. Oh, that's a little bit loud.

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it is we adjust it. But now I can see the corner of my eye, it's way out here. Hopefully, this Hopefully this will be okay but it's that not too soft and doesn't have those plosives.

So there's a number of different ways in which we can talk about this path of practice,

is movement towards greater... and talk about this path of practice,

this movement towards greater ease and freedom.

There's a number of different ways

in which we might characterize what it is we're doing here,

like you know, why we even have a meditation practice

to begin with.

And one way, we could talk about not the only way, but one way, is this idea of like coming home to ourselves, like coming home to ourselves,

like coming home, the sense of, oh yeah, I'm at home.

Certainly this idea that maybe there's some ease when we're at home.

So thinking about home not literally, but metaphorically,

this idea of not only coming home, but also implies that we're not elsewhere.

And I'll talk about a little bit more what that means to be elsewhere, but instead the sense of when I think about what it's like to be at home,

I'm thinking about, you know, wearing comfy clothes and my bare feet just wandering around. Maybe I'm looking for my glasses. I'm often taking my

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