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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org.

Okay. Okay, so it's good to say with you.

It's good to say with you. In Darma practice, we often kind of now find ourselves circling back to old loves, things that maybe we put aside

as you're practicing or training, they sort of become relevant once again.

And I was remembering a undergraduate. is remembering

undergraduate class, philosophy class.

And professor said,

were alluding to, were all ideas in the mind of God.

And they were alluding to, that's a phrase from George Berkeley 1700s this philosophical

school of idealism the idea that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas, no material

existence.

And that phrase, you know,

we're all ideas in the mind of God,

just like did something to me.

And the Buddha was not an idealist in that sense, believed in the reality of things of people of trees of chairs,

of chairs, but maybe we can say in certain ways that the Buddha was an idealist about one thing, suffering. The core of all things, the core of all things, the Buddha said, is liberation.

The core of all things is liberation and the experience of suffering is far more

plastic, more fluid than a table or a chair. We've taken our suffering to be more like a chair than maybe we should. And so the dapada begins, all experience is preceded by mind, made by mind, led by mind. And this is not the claim that the world doesn't exist or it's all just an idea

in the mind of God.

It doesn't mean that, but what it means is we're always

doing something to experience.

...