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

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So hello everyone and I'm glad to be back that I've been gone for about a month and

I've had a wonderful time for about three weeks being involved in a training program to train people to be Buddhist teachers in the context of the natural world, the wilderness, wilderness retreats, wilderness back, you know, periods of time of living in the natural world.

And that's what I've been done for the last month.

Except for the last four days or so that I went backpacking with my wife

to add to the time living outdoors and camping and quite wonderful.

So for this week's teachings, I'd like to go through the five qualities of the Buddha's

teachings.

The way it's described is it's the it's the description of the well spoken

teachings of the Buddha.

And the word for teaching is

is a very rich word, and it could also be, it didn't mean reality, the truth

itself.

But for now I'll call it the teachings, and it's the five characteristics of the teachings

and the importance of these five

is seen in the fact that the monastic

teravod community chants these every day as part of their liturgy.

They're being reminded of these five qualities on a daily basis.

And excuse me. And so, So this is how it goes in English in translation.

The Darma is well proclaimed, well spoken by the Blessed One.

It is visible here and now, immediate, inviting to be seen for oneself onward leading and personally

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