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

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So hello and welcome this to this continuity of a series on insight of the insight meditation and the particular

form of insight in the last two days and then today is a common Buddhist teaching of the Buddha

for us to use our awareness

to realize, to see clearly

in a way that's represented by these sentences.

This is not mine.

This I am not.

This is not self.

And each of these are innocent enough to say, to, you know, to see there's mine and I am and

this is who I, this is myself.

It can be done lightly and appropriately

as a kind of general category.

And we're getting a big example of

this self-thing

is in modern West

and modern psychotherapy.

It's a relatively well, relatively common to, for therapists to discern, to assess that someone needs to become, to develop a stronger sense of self.

And I don't feel any need to argue against that.

But Buddhism, if that's just kind of a general kind of category for certain tasks,

certain things that need to be developed and cultivated.

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