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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So before I begin this talk I want announcement to make about an upcoming event here at

I'm

I'm going to for the first time do a kind of celebration of the federal and state holiday of Juneteenth day, which is this

Wednesday.

And it's one of the, I think, it's one of the I think feel like one of the great

holidays in United States because of commemorating a long overdue freedom, liberation of people here in this country,

the liberation from slavery, the people who,

that's the date when after the end of the Civil War, slave owners neglected to tell

slaves in Texas that they were free and so it wasn't until this day that the US Army came into that part of Texas to make the bring the news and to free the slaves. This is a final freedom. It's a wonderful

celebration, wonderful celebration of painful part of American history and suffering and happiness together.

And so, very fortunate to have Ann Royce to come and lead us in this event and she'll give it

a little darma talk and the information about it is on the IMC website, on what's new and on the calendar,

and it'll be at 6 PM California time.

And I look forward to seeing any of you who might come there to be part of it. Thank you.

So for the talks for this week, I'd like to go through again the topics from last week's talk which were the core foundational

teachings that I rely on or that are underneath how I teach Buddhism and I thought it would be

invaluable for people for me to just lay it out how it is for me so that you're not guessing or assuming a lot about me. And this topic is something I'd like to continue it for this week and go through each of the five topics

and offer some more thoughts on it, partly with the idea that you will reflect on this.

Some of the value of these YouTube teachings that I do will come to you when you reflect on them and consider

and maybe have conversations with friends afterwards or journal or think about them for yourself.

How does this work for you?

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