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

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Okay, so it's good to, good to say with you.

Thank you for, for the questions, great questions.

Yeah, I appreciate just seeing what's on people's mind last time.

If you were in here, I chatted a link in to submit anonymous

questions and got a bunch and yeah great questions about free will and the self and consciousness

and awareness and some of the questions are above my pay grade.

Some will lead me very deep into nerd territory and we might not come out

and we might not be wiser if we did get out. So I got to be selective

and what I pick up but I really, those are a lot of my questions, it's on my mind.

And so even if I'm not answering the questions, it's informing what I'm thinking about, how I'm thinking

about this group.

So thank you and we'll have time to do more of those.

I'll pick up more that have been submitted.

So, been submitted. So the question that I selected, somebody just cut right to the

chase. What's the best way to overcome clinging?

And that's really the question, right?

Joseph Goldstein, I remember, some years ago, was asked to sum up his

response was simply the mind that's not clinging to anything.

That's how he summed up everything.

Everything. And if you're not clinging, right? How could anything really be a problem? How if you're not clinging, could greed possibly gain a foothold?

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