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

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Good evening. Welcome, welcome.

Nice to see you all.

Last week I had the great opportunity to go for a hike down off Skyline Boulevard, maybe you guys know.

And it was just quite something.

It was walking on the ridge and like looking down into Pacific Valley, like, oh, look,

there's that place and that place.

And then walking a little bit further and seeing like, wow, look at the fog coming in off

with the Pacific.

It was just beautiful.

It was just so beautiful. And this was a park, you know, that's freely offered. Just drive up,

park your car, put your shoes on, off you go.

I just felt like my heart just filling up with so much gratitude, so much appreciation just for this simple thing of spending time outside, having these views and having the opportunity, the capability,

capacity. I won't always have this. I haven't always had this capability to walk, right,

some distances. And just this recognition that the fullness of the heart of the appreciation and maybe the nourishment in some kind of way of the beauty

just created the conditions in which there could be something else.

Like it stayed with me for quite some time,

just this feeling of being filled up,

like, you know, not needing anything more.

So it's, with that, it's a little bit of a backdrop that kind of like chose what I'm going to talk about tonight.

And also with this recognition that, you know, I, there's, that I'm offering one little piece of the Dharma,

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