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

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Hello on this Monday morning, in California.

And the series of talks I'd like to give today very much based on what the theme of my last retreat,

a week-long retreat that ended yesterday, teaching with Andrea O'Fello.

And some of you who heard that will recognize some of it.

And I'll call this the road less traveled.

And in Buddhist practice,

there's often the emphasis on a path, path of practice.

And every time, in every step, there is a fork in the path.

There's a path less traveled, and the path that is commonly traveled,

all too easily traveled.

And in Buddhism, we choose the path less traveled.

Sometimes it's called going against the current.

If you're swimming up against the current of a river, it's hard.

Or if you put something in the river, it just floats down.

It doesn't go against the current. But in the river, it just floats down. It doesn't go against the current.

But in the commentary, in the, in the path model, we take the path that is wholesome. There is the unwholesome and the unwholesome.

Very simple division.

And so things like lying is the unwholesome direction.

Being honest is the wholesome direction.

Being mean is unwholesome, being kind is wholesome. And because of this

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