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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So I come to this last talk on a little bit of my story, my story in the

darma. And yesterday I came more or less to the beginning of I. M.C. here in Redwood City in being able to purchase this building that I'm sitting in.

And we're able to do it out of the generosity of the sellers, the two ministers, Christian ministers who wanted us to buy the church because they

also provided us with the necessary loan to buy it.

And it would have been hard for us to have had the money.

Also, it took a year and a half from the time that they told us that we were interested

in selling it to us before they even showed us the building.

And that worked really well for our mindfulness approach just doing

things mindfully slowly, caringly we kind of got ready and prepared for this process.

That was exceptional because in this area back then,

you had to have made a bid for buying a property probably the day before it went on the market.

It was that fast, you know, it had to be really quick and so we didn't really have that ability and also wasn't the kind of our way of doing things.

And it's important that we do things, buy things, move ahead,

build our programs in our community, all in a way that feels harmonious with the

practice we're doing.

That's harmonious with being, hopefully being relaxed at ease, not pushing, not trying to make something happen for which

there is no kind of momentum and delight and enthusiasm for doing.

So after that long period of we bought the building and that was

phenomenally beneficial for our community to have now this kind of blank canvas to grow our programs and to grow all kinds of things.

And with that our community grew.

And both in numbers but also in kind of the maturity of people's practice and the

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