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

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When I was young, when I was young, even as a young kid, but especially as an adolescent, it's not unique to me, but as an adolescent I remember feeling so kind of let down by institutions by

by school and the religion I was born into and the kind of

cultural models proffered about what is meaningful, what's a reasonable life.

And in that disappointment, there was some discernment, for sure. But mostly I was angry, you know,

and it was kind of just a version spraying everywhere sort of fire hose style you know and

yet like lurking in that anger was a kind of earnest hopefulness, you know,

maybe even amidst the cynicism, you know, like the cynicism disguised some kind of

utopian fantasies, you know, just wanting institutions to be more fair, more honest, more attuned to what

happiness actually is.

And again and again, my heart would break.

And it was almost like the first noble truth

constellating at the level of the group or the institution.

We know that Dukk suffering at the level of the individual, but it also constellates at the level of

the group.

And it's its own unique species of Dukah.

And so against that background, years later, when I heard the phrase

disenchanted with some sorta,

the disenchanted with some sara.

I was very interested, you know. And it seemed, you know, you know,ara, this kind of realm of this human realm of cyclical,

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