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

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So, hello and welcome to this Monday morning talk where we continue with a theme of insight,

starting in a little bit fresh with a new week's orientation towards insight.

And the topic still is not self, topic that's very difficult for many people to

appreciate and understand. And what I'd like to do today is to emphasize that the teachings

do not, the teachings on not self, can point to staying close

to a sense of well-being,

that this is not meant to be to diminish us,

but rather to leave us in a good place.

So remember that these teachings about not self now

are following a long series of teachings

and practice of samadhi and now a series of teachings on insight.

So this is not meant to be understood just walking off the street and going into a Buddhist center and never having

practiced before and hearing a very rational maybe maybe not so rational talk on not self

and trying to understand it from one's own, you know, ordinary state of mind.

The orientation here for this talk is that it's for people who have some experience of meditation,

of a deeper inner life, where they have some qualitative experience of inner well-being,

where there's a qualitatively good experience of peace, happiness, freedom, joy, calm, tranquility, something that feels

really good, maybe not easily found. And in the context of that,

then the not self-teachings appoint to be careful.

Watch how this whole world of me, myself, and mine,

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