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

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So, hello and welcome to the second talk on the road less taken.

And applying this idea, this metaphor of a fork in the forest, a fork in the road in the road,

and that there is a fork that leads to what is unwholesome and a fork that leads to

what is wholesome and what is a path that leads to the unwholesome it's unwholesome mental verbal and physical and physical activity that we can be involved in.

What is the road to the wholesome?

It is the wholesome mental, verbal, and physical activities that we engage in.

So it's what's happening here and now that is important here,

is taking the next step on these two different roads.

And this idea that there is a division or a separation or a distinction

between two very different roads to take in life is kind of inherent in the Buddhist path,

Buddhist practice, and that the one that leads to suffering is very much tied to the world of thinking.

Not that thinking is wrong or bad in and of itself,

but there's a world we construct out of our thinking.

That if we want something too much,

or if we have aggression or hostility,

or if we have fear, if we have

anxiety, there's a way in which that kind of prompt can prompt a lot of thinking, imaginations,

and thoughts, and those thoughts that we construct then have a bounce back on the rest of us.

So if we're anxious about something, and it's all too easy to be caught up in thoughts about anxiety,

the ideas and the story, what's going to happen.

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