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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So welcome to this fifth talk on where I try to offer the description or explanation of the core teachings that I base

my rest of my teachings on, the kind of the foundational teachings.

And maybe what, you know, in some ways,

animates or motivates me to teach.

So I'll review what we, that I've done this week so far that I place the attention sensitivity to suffering

and the end of suffering at the center of the

darma that I teach that the possibility of ending suffering the possibility of ending suffering,

the possibility of meeting suffering in the world

in oneself in a deep way

is one of the most profound things that I know a person can do, that there are many wonderful things

to do in the world, but I believe one of the most fundamental wonderful things is bring suffering to an end and either for oneself or working to

support others to do that and that

we do in reference to that freedom from suffering.

And then it makes everything else more meaningful

or more valuable because it conveys then that

possibility for others as well and that end of suffering is supported by not holding on to any views, any fixed views,

that there's a freedom from use, and certainly human beings do a tremendous

amount of projecting onto others, onto reality, onto themselves, of concepts, ideas, judgments, and bias.

And we do that with our religious practice, spiritual practices as well.

And one of the key qualities of the kind of Buddhism that I really kind of oriented towards

is not holding on to any views as being ultimate religious views.

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