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

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So good morning, everyone.

Somehow I feel particularly happy to sit here today.

Happy and content, somehow.

Which maybe I shouldn't be.

Because I don't have a talk really thought out.

I'm just here.

And I debated whether to just take questions today.

It seems like it was nice to do that periodically.

But there is something that I would like to talk about that I think I'd enjoy talking about.

It just hasn't been formulated.

So I might bore you.

As I find my way.

But it's wonderful for me.

For me, a wonderful topic of our thinking.

And over the years of practice, my relationship to thinking has changed.

And has deepened and expanded in all kinds of interesting ways.

For me at least.

And I would say that I have a very friendly relationship.

With my thinking world, my thinking.

I think a lot of people can't say I couldn't have said that when I was younger.

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