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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone, everyone.

and welcome to this fourth talk on the five qualities of the darma and there's two ways of understanding the word

darma here one is it's the teachings of the Buddha. These are five qualities characteristics

of those teachings, how we can recognize

what's essential on those teachings.

But sometimes the darma is considered to be the inner processes, the movements, the development,

the growth, the unfolding that happens when we practice. An unfolding which sometimes that we're

are being

are doing it, but that we're being practiced,

that we're almost getting out of our own way

and allowing something deep inside to unfold. that we are almost getting out of our own way

and allowing something deep inside to unfold,

to grow, to mature, to expand.

And a lot of darma practices creating the conditions of being so fully present here and in

being here having the right conditions for something to flower.

And practicing the hateful path, practicing ethics,

learning how to be present and mindful

in a non-reactive, non-minipulative way, just fully present with care and attention is phenomenal in

setting free some process of maturation and growth.

So the fourth characteristic of the darma is that the darma is

onward leading. So it begins by saying the darma is something that's visible

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