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 third talk as I continue for the second week

conveying, trying to convey some of the core teachings that underlie my orientation, my perspective as a Buddhist

teacher and it's a building on what I said last, so it's part two of the same topics.

And so today it's the my teachings are based on a very strong naturalistic

orientation and and what I mean by naturalistic is that it's in the world of our direct experience, things

we can know for ourselves.

We can experience for ourselves that we don't have to explain things

with things that we can't really know or can't really discover.

So the supernatural world, which is such a big part of religion often and Buddhism as well,

not to dismiss that or say that it's wrong or not true, it's just not

the orientation of how I teach. It's almost like I put that aside as if it's not something we have to address or deal with for this a path of liberation,

path of practice, for living a life of So this naturalistic approach can be explained little bit as pointing out that in the early

Buddhist teaching it appears that the Buddha

when he taught, without saying it

in this kind of modern way,

presented the human being as having two separate operating systems that are not really

comparable or not equal or not but they're operating, it's almost like apples and oranges. They're being

very different from each other. So the one of them, the one that is, so there's a wholesome one and the unwholesome one.

And the unwholesome operating system is one that is founded on greed-hate and delusion.

And greed-hate and delusion are, I think, of as deep as they might seem in a human being. They're much more surface

reactions to things and they engage our surface muscles, our surface thoughts, or engagement, and our, often they engage

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