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

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Good morning. Welcome. Welcome.

So I'd like to just build on a little bit what I mentioned earlier today during the what we call the practice note.

And that is this sense that we so often have, like it's quite amazing how prevalent it is, this idea of like, yeah, things are okay, but they should be a little bit better or they can be a little bit better.

There's this like underlying agitation of wanting things to be just a little bit different.

And maybe it's not even clear to us like how it should be different.

Just this general feeling like yeah this it's good but it could be better.

We often have this feeling like yeah it could be better. We often have this feeling like,

yeah, it could be better, or even it should be better.

That's no matter what's happening, that somehow it's not enough, it's not good enough.

And there's a way in which this pervasive, this prevalent feeling of things,

being in adequate some way, really kind of roams us from the intimacy the connection with our life

because our life is happening just here however it is, but there's always a little part of us that's thinking like, yeah, but it should be this other way or something.

And what I'm describing was part of how I'm interpreting with the Buddha when he

use this word dukka. Like I mean there's obvious dukka there's a terrible

terrible suffering that happens in the world and then there's

often just this mild niggling little mmm I wish it could be better somehow.

So there's a number of reasons why this might arise.

I'm not going to go through all of them, but here's one.

Just something to consider that might be helpful as a way to work with it or to be with it.

Earlier during the practice note I said, it's like this right now. So just to kind of like tune in to what's happening

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