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

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I had forgotten how sweet it is to be with the morning

Sanga or the 7 a.m. Sanga, California time and

and see all your reflections, all your, yeah, the names scrolling by.

Yeah, very sweet, worldwide, from so many places in this world.

Oh, so sweet.

Oh, my heart is warmed.

Yeah, great. So the theme for today, as you might have gathered, actually the theme for this week, is confidence, trust. The word in

Polly is Sada and wait where is my notes hold on a second having technical difficulty,

so many windows open. Well done here, where did my notes go? Here we go. I can always riff, but it's better to have

notes. Here we go. There they are. Great. Okay, great. Lovely. So, so Sada, the word in Polly, is Sadah, S-A-D-H-A, is Sadah.

I'm sure one of you will write it in chat, Sadada and Sada, actually Sada, I should say it, right, Sada because there is a

elongation that the A at the end is long, sadah, sadah, sadah, yeah that's better.

Bali pronunciation, poly being the language of the Buddha, Sadha.

So the word Sadha translated as trust, confidence, and sometimes faith and it is a very significant concept and not just

not just so much concept but in our practice I mean what is it's not so much

conceptual I take I take this practice to be really practical and when I started practicing

years and years ago I was I just wanted to practice I just wanted to

to I actually said on the let's it you know what I'm going to put in the chat, Sadais. Yeah, there you go. Henry, Henry, that's the, yeah, that's it, Henry and Jamie, thank you. And you even got the, yeah, the, the, uh, diac, one day, oh, thank you. I love this song, oh, we all support each other. I love it. This is so sweet.

So, yeah, there's a little bit of a delay between the Zoom and the YouTube, so it takes like 30 seconds after you put the something in chat for me to acknowledge it.

You know this already, I know you know. Anyway, so yeah, I was saying that when I started practicing decades ago, I was just interested in meditating and the concepts and the teachings only I became

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