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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello and welcome to this ninth talk on the ten reflections.

And for today and tomorrow today,

the topic is reconciliation, and tomorrow it's healing.

And I associate these two with becoming whole, becoming whole inter-personally or becoming

and becoming whole for oneself. a holistic, a holism,

that were not divided through fear, divided through greed or hatred or kind of a

it includes inclusion coming together and meeting together.

I think that reconciliation comes from a root meaning in Latin

to come together to meet. So it might be nice to go through these 10 a little bit briefly that I connect them all with a certain kind of sequence, a logic of how one follows the other.

And there's other ways in which they can follow.

This is not required that they follow this sequence,

but I kind of delight in this sequence and the story that they kind of tell.

That if we find a sense, if we find meaning and purpose in this life, then that gives us a guide for what we're going to do in this life of ours. And so then it's important then

to be able to act, so to have agency and agency a certain degree of autonomy.

Our agency are doing is not something that's permitted by others only or enabled by other people. We're not dependent in others, but we have an

autonomous ability to live a life of meaning and purpose.

As we do that, as we act, and as we act singularly

for ourselves in a certain way,

maybe together with others, that then we start to get to know ourselves in relationship to what's

important for us, what drives us the purpose and meaning, and the actions we do, and we can have a clear sense

of identity, clear sense of who we are. And that's very important if we've kind of lost to ourselves and not sure who we are.

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