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

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Great. Great possibilities for us,

for us, and directions to go in this kind of practice we do,

is to have an experience of being whole.

And why that's such a wonderful thing

is that many people live their lives fragmented or live their lives so focused on certain parts of their life

that they're divided, they're separated, or not everything is included.

Some people have ideas that parts of who they are is unacceptable,

and so you might as well keep it in the dark or ignore it or keep it at bay or pretend it's not there or hide it from everyone or something.

Some people are just so fascinated with themselves that their conceit is

devise them leaves out so much.

They kind of focus on how great they are or something,

or some people have purposes,

that they're so absorbed and and so focused on

that leaves out so much of who they are, they're distracted.

And some people, you know, because of their work even, that maybe been a lot of time on computers, most of their life

is from the neck up.

Maybe their fingers come into play, but otherwise, you know, it's not much connected to their heart and to their fullness of who they are.

So there's many ways in which we become partial, fragmented.

And so part of the practice is to heal the fragmentation. Part of the

practice is to relax the boundaries, the barriers that keep us apart from the fullness of who we are,

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