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

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We often associate disorientation with unpleasantness.

Who likes getting lost?

Maybe a few people,

but I have never had the taste for that exactly.

I associate disorientation,

generally speaking with unpleasantness.

But here in Dharma, we actually developed some appreciation for it.

And those moments when you, you know, right after you wake up or something, before you've remembered who you are.

Some elements of practice are about acclimatizing to disorientation. And I was alluding to that a little bit in the the

instructions and awe a w ewe says a beautiful pleasant, but maybe a little disorienting, the sense of the mind

broadening. And it's like we're not accustomed to so much space.

But awe is the feeling of a kind of simultaneous expansion and contraction into, you know, we're like infinitesimally small and vast.

And there's a sense of like, oh yeah,

the smallness is partaking in the vastness.

This is psychologist Dacker Keltner.

Awes the feeling of wonder and amazement

at being in the presence of something vast

that transcends one's current understanding.

A is part of a family of states that includes elevation,

appreciation, and beration.

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