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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone and welcome to this fourth thought, the fourth talk where I try to articulate the core

teachings that kind of underlie what motivates me to teach and what guides how I teach.

And so it's kind of a hopefully a clear way of letting people know what I'm about

because some of you have been listening to me for a long time and it feels like it's a responsible thing for me to kind of be

very direct about what I think are my core, my core orientations as a teacher perspectives.

And so yesterday I talked about how there's a strong naturalistic orientation in how I want

how I teach and how I practice that there's an orientation perspective that

there is a natural functioning within us that benefits us, that

we're tapping into and allowing to move through us and allowing to awaken us in us.

That as we orient towards suffering and the end of suffering as we free ourselves from fixed ideas and fixed views that

it gives room for this natural functioning of ourselves to to function to operate and

just like if you keep your cut clean,

it allows a natural functioning of the body healing

to heal the cut.

Just as some of the ways in which our hearts get broken, if similar, it kind of metaphorically we keep the heart clean, we don't interfere with its own natural working,

give room for it, get room for the pain.

There is a natural kind of healing or movement

towards health that the heart knows what to do, better than our thinking mind or engineering mind

our mind trying to figure out or trying to understand and so to sit in

meditation and get out of our own way.

And not only do the practice, but also be practiced,

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