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

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So good morning, everyone, or good day, and welcome to this third talk.

On the Road Less Taken. everyone, a good day, and welcome to this third talk on the road less taken.

And the idea being that in Buddhist practice,

there's always, we're always standing at the junction of two directions we could take.

We could either do something in the wide realm,

wide variety of ways that are wholesome,

or we can go in the direction that's unwholesome.

And it's rare that there's a third way right down the middle

of neither wholesome or unsulsome.

And even if there is, it's a lost

opportunity. Every step we take can be done with a kind of attention and warmth and that it makes it

wholesome, it makes it good.

Nothing we do needs to be either neutral or unwholesome.

Everything we do, that with a step we take,

what arises within us that we have no volition,

personal volition, didn't choose to do it, may be unwholesome, but then to meet that with wholesome, to recognize it wholesomely, to avoid participating in it in a wholesome way,

not to reject it or be aversive or just, oh, this too, wow, I'll think I'll

leave that alone. And that could be done wholesomely out of care for yourself. So we always have this,

and so learning about this, the path, here we're calling the road less taken, but it also can be understood as a whole

different operating system. There's two operating systems within us, and one has to do a lot with

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