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

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So I got an anonymous questions.

We're quite moving to read your your questions and just

answering one but maybe we'll get to others or certainly they they inform how I'm

thinking about the group so this person said, sometimes your talks resonates as strongly. It's as though

I already knew and understand all along and you just brought it to the light. But then there

are talks that feel out of my reach,

teasingly standing just outside the realm of my understanding,

making me feel like I'd missed an important class,

and I wish there were a makeup session I could have attended,

which brings me to my question of whether there are

makeup classes in the forms of readings or books, transcripts of previous talks, in some

accessible order you could suggest to bring some of more complex teachings within reach.

So, first off, I don't know if I'm teaching the right way. You know, who even knows how to do this?

You can kind of follow the Buddha's model and pedagogical advice,

but in the end you have to make a million in any Dharma talk, a million editorial decisions.

And teachers can merely express their particular loves as best they can.

And so I don't know if I'm teaching the right way. And just because certain ways of

teaching get reinforced by the Sangha, you know, doesn't mean they're optimal. Like sometimes I wonder,

maybe I should be tougher much tougher and then I think but I don't want to

and then I'm not but maybe I should be.

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