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

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Okay, good to sit with you.

So every, excuse me, every... Excuse me.

Every Dharma teaching is a kind of footnote on some other Dharma teaching.

In other words, no teaching is the last word. One teaching is never enough.

And the more I practice, the more I find that the path is found in kind of dynamic tension

between two teachings.

And so yesterday, humor, playfulness, just indispensable, actually.

And today, grief,

playfulness.

Just indispensable, actually.

And today, grief, also indispensable.

And so the gap between the freedom we know is possible

and the unimaginable vastness of suffering,

that gap is filled with grief.

And for all the ways in which

no

consolation

exists for the agony of this realm.

Grief exists. The Dharma is said to meet the second arrow measure of grief in the first arrow.

That's not exactly a consolation for it, but it means there's something left over even

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