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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So then I continue with the story of my darma life and for this week it's more my life as a teacher.

And I ended yesterday by talking about how we decided to become incorporated as a religious nonprofit.

And that happened in 1997.

And the purpose of that was to be able to purchase our own property, to have our own center.

And so that process began of seeing how we could do that.

And early on we had this idea that, actually we had the first and maybe the only fundraising

committee meeting a group of people who were interested in trying to fundraise

for this purpose and we met in someone's living room and Terry Lesser, who's our yoga teacher here for many years at IMC,

she said money follows the practice.

And as soon as she said that, we stopped talking about how to raise money

and rather talked about how we could offer more practice opportunities.

And we did a survey of the community to see what kind of practice opportunities they wanted.

And one of the things that was desired was to have a Sunday morning program,

and other was to have a yoga program, and other things.

And so we started a Sunday morning program in Portola Valley.

And by now, we were using many different facilities

around during through the week,

for all the different programs we have been developing.

We had two programs a week at the Friends Meeting House.

We had at the Community Center in Portola Valley.

We had the Sunday morning program. We had a day-long retreats

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