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

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Okay, good to sit with you.

So a quote I saw this week from Aachenzujito,

as it is based upon dispassion and cooling,

the realization of nibana cannot arise from getting heated up about the host of Mara or from denying its existence.

Comes from replacing the compulsive movements of craving and ignorance with mindful energy

and insight.

Nibana is the experience of space in the mind where previously everything was densely stuck together

in regenerative congestion. In that congestion, a self is imagined that now and then longs to escape from the oppressive host of inner voices, feelings,

doubts, and desires. So to one who practices insight, the idea that nibana is a selfish goal

doesn't make sense because the mirage of self evaporates as the fire's cool.

And the means of bringing this about

is the selfless eightfold path.

As a practice, this means cultivating

a purer and wiser response to faults and attachments than the counterattack or defense moods

adopted by the self-view. Rather than fight the host or get away from them, you have to

liberate the host from Mara, the embodiment of suffering. Mara. I have to liberate the host of Mara, the embodiment of suffering. Mara, have to liberate the host of Mara from all

delusion, from all the hatred and fear and belief that binds them with self-feo. So, Ajin Sajita, of course, is a, as a monk.

But you get a sense of how profound the path turns inwards.

And this is a path that's really not about helping my life along.

And the whole notion of my life is a symptom rather than the centerpiece.

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