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

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

So I thought to just carry on with the theme that been developing at the morning,

morning skills sets.

And that's, if you haven't been

Darma and interpersonal life.

And I thought to say something about the theme of sexuality

and a neglected Darma topic.

And as I was putting together the kind of thoughts

about this, it struck me as like, are the

Buddhist going to make this depressing too and by the Buddhist I mean me.

And even sex, depressing a little bit.

Maybe, maybe a little bit.

A complicated issue. And I speak about it knowing just

the range of experiences and meaning and beauty and harm and all of that. What's empowering for one person is very much not that for another.

So it's an important caveat on all of this.

But I felt like, okay, I can say something about this.

So to love is to risk and to desire is sometimes to feel destabilized.

And I read somewhere, I don't know where, I don't remember,

but it said it was some psycho analytic writer.

And they said something like, for Freud,

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