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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So, hello, hello and welcome to this fourth talk that's focused on the, I believe, the very significant

practice of not making it worse.

If that's all we do, we make a much better world.

And so, and how we're talking about it is with taking the word worse and turning it into an acronym.

And so if you want to practice not making it worse,

then there's these five different ways of steps to how you can do that besides just doing nothing.

So this way not making it worse actually makes it better actually enhances something and allow something more

Significant or profound have a chance to arise and happen in this situation that couldn't

happen if we just barrel ahead and just do the thing that makes it worse that

expresses the anger or acts on the greed or acts on bias.

So, So first is to wait.

is to wait.

If you feel that, okay, I don't think, I'm going to about now to make it worse.

I'm going to create now to make it worse. I'm going to create more division,

separation, divisiveness. I'm going to give this person a piece of my mind so that they

feel lousy and belittled or I'm going to do something that I know in the past makes me feel

lousy afterwards and so I know it I know this make make it worse and and yes I know an alternative

I know something that's something to do in this circumstance I know something to do in this circumstance.

I know the specialness, the wonderfulness of pausing and waiting.

Wait, wait, just wait, wait, wait, wait little bit, a sacred wait, a momentary Sabbath, a generative

waiting, let wait, make room for something to happen here and be known.

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