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

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Okay, good to say with you.

So it was, I think, humor, grieving, awe, surrender,

today, courage.

I've been in a lot of videos over the course of my Dharma life mindfulness.

Before this, you know, doing stuff with IMC before COVID, you know,

I've seen videos with mindful schools for some years with Megan Cowan, Chris McKenna.

And those made their way to a lot of people.

And so sometimes people have seen me in videos a lot, but never in person.

And one of the most common things people say when they see me in person is,

I thought you were shorter.

I find very endearing.

I thought you were shorter.

I'm not saying courage is correlated with height or something,

but I do kind of hear it as like,

I thought you were maybe even less courageous.

And we're talking about courage today.

Teachers speak about courageous effort, but not often about courage.

And I don't consider myself temperamentally speaking a courageous person. I've not taught about it.

I don't feel like I know quite enough about it.

I'm temperamentally kind of risk averse and harm avoidant, meaning I've been very careful with my body and mind and careful with the bodies and minds of others.

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