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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. The theme for this week is to try to share with you some of the building blocks,

the foundations for my particular orientation

for teaching Buddhism, teaching the Derma, and maybe from causes and conditions, life experiences,

personality, all kinds of reasons. Teachers have their own take, their own orientation. And so I thought

maybe useful to try to provide you with mind that's behind how I teach, maybe not always

so evident.

And yesterday I emphasized how at the, because it's the Yesterday I feel like the rock-bottom foundation of what motivates me in the

darma and guides me in the darma is sensitivity to suffering and the end of suffering and the possibility

of a radical end to suffering, the possibility of a lessening of suffering for myself and for others.

And that there are times in my life that I thought that was a rather simplistic orientation to be the center of my the Buddhism that I practice

and teach.

But I've come to appreciate that it's actually quite a profound orientation and it's philosophically profound,

doctrinally profound, Buddhistically profound, doctrinally profound,

Buddhistically profound, because suffering

and the end of suffering is a thread that goes through all aspects of our lives and it touches everything and the end of suffering similarly kind of touches everything we do and everything we are in a deep deep way.

So it's a profound thing.

And for me, it's enough.

That's enough for what the darma is about.

If I take it one more step then the I have an orientation maybe from my Zen practice partly maybe based on my background that I kind of have an orientation to not

settle to not center on any view, any philosophy, any point of view, even though I just provided

one, the end of suffering and the end of suffering, but not to center, not to

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