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 and continue with this story of my life now as coming into becoming a teacher and I guess I am

enjoying talking about this sometimes I've become bored telling my story the times I have.

And it's kind of maybe gives me a chance for reconsider it and look at it in new ways from this

perspective for today, this age.

So in 1990 I came to graduate school at Stanford University. I moved back into San

Center. I started teacher training with with Jack Cornfield and within a year or so I started kind of training to be a Zen teacher and get Zen

Darma transmission.

By 1992 I was married.

And it was kind of a wonderful time looking back at it.

And my scholarship, my was a three-year scholarship at Stanford that gave me living expenses.

I was able to spread it out over four years. So I went to school two quarters a year rather than three.

And that allowed me to go and do the teacher training, to go on retreats and to start teaching retreats.

And I very quickly understood that the kind of courses, graduate courses that I took.

The primary way in which we were graded

was by turning in a final paper.

And because I was doing other things as well, the darma things and retreat things,

at least one summer I wrote my final paper before the class began. I kind of understood how the

topics were, what the subject was. I do the subject I signed up for for the course and

I kind of knew how this went. So I knew I would be busy.

And one of the things I was busy where they were engaged in was that every fall,

I for pretty much the whole 1990s, beyond the time I was at in graduate school, I taught a

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