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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So today, I will, I will reflect on the final intent of the 10 reflections and in some ways I very much think of them it is following all the others. All the

others are a foundation for this last one and I think of it as healing. So yesterday was reconciliation. Today's

healing and the difference between reconciliation and healing in the way that I'm using it here

is reconciliation is the healing we do socially, the coming into wholeness, into communion, coming together

and with kindness, with goodwill, with others.

Healing, I use here as how we reconcile ourselves with ourselves, how we come into communion to wholeness with ourselves.

And I'd like to believe it's not a coincidence

or that it's very significant that the English word wholeness and healing and health all kind of come from the same

Indo-European roots through the Germanic and Scandinavian and Northern European languages,

that there's something about healing and health which means to be whole, to be

undamaged, un-injured, and to be complete in a certain kind of way.

And so, to not be divided in ourselves.

And there are times when we are at war with ourselves.

We have values we believe in, but we don't live that way.

We have ways of being and thinking and feeling,

which somehow or other we think is not acceptable and we have to get

rid of it, push it away.

So I've seen in some people quite an intense standoff kind of impassable kind of checkmate around the war between different

parts of themselves. And so to heal the divisions we have, to heal the ways in which we are critical of ourselves,

angry at ourselves, hostile towards ourselves, heal the ways in which we shut off

from ourselves, divided in ourselves.

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