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

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So hello and welcome to this fifth talk on the Buddha's teachings on Quarrels and I

today I Broadcasting, giving this talk from Spirit Rock Meditation Center and

here together with Kwan Yin, the great embodiment of Bodhiotva of compassion, which seems appropriate for the topic

we're talking about this week.

Once when I met Shinsen Young talking with him, he was one of the great elder Vipassna teachers in the United States. Brilliant man, very creative, and as a Buddhist teacher.

And he once created a program to teach mindfulness to teenagers.

I believe some of them were troubled teenagers.

And I was really struck by the principle by which he taught these teenagers mindfulness.

First what he would do is they were going to come to him for the, I guess,

training and mindfulness. And he asked them to bring whatever was their favorite music and they would come with their favorite music and

they would listen to it. A big part of the session with him was listening to that music.

And he would not teach them any mindfulness.

What he would do, and he wouldn't teach it directly,

what he would do, he would ask them questions about listening to their music and questions about

the experience of being with their music, what their mind does when their music is

there, listening to music. So I don't know exactly what his questions were but I

could imagine that he might ask for example, when you most enjoyed your music, how did you feel?

And what was a quality, what was your, how would you characterize your attention when you were most enjoying your music?

And there were times when you kind of lost track of your music

that you got drifted off and thought.

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