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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So, So hello everyone and welcome to this third talk the series called

core teachings and that's a shorthand for the core teachings or

core understandings that underlie how I teach Buddhism. And I thought it was probably high time for me to be explicit about my particular orientation

around Buddhism and Buddhist teachings that, so you don't have to guess or not know.

And this in the background of probably everything I teach one way or the other.

And so how I teach as a particular orientation that is maybe a subset of what Buddhism is.

It is definitely a subset of what Buddhism is, but maybe it's a subset

of what their earliest teachings are because of the orientation of what I select and what I'm

oriented towards.

And so the first talk was about the emphasis on Duka and freedom from Dukk, often translated as suffering in the end of suffering.

Yesterday's talk was about the having no views, not operating,

for finding a place of no views, not centering

or basing ourselves on a particular,

on a particular dependency on an understanding or a view, but a freedom from views, freedom from taking anything as ultimate views of ultimacy which is common in religion.

And both of these belong to the world of our direct experience.

The idea of ultimacy that this is what the ultimate experience is, ultimate reality is, is a kind of interpretation.

And you can ask yourself the question, where did I learn this from?

Where's that interpretation come from?

And is it from my teachers, is it from my sacred texts,

is it from this a popular idea,

or is it from my logic or my own interpretation

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