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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So good. Good morning everyone. Is this on loud enough everyone?

Is this on loud enough everyone? Okay good. So thank you for being here. And so what's been on my mind, my

heart for a few days now is the concept of trust and what do we trust in our lives?

And when have we been betrayed in our trust? And how does that prevent us from trusting again? And what can we trust?

And one of the easy answers to what we can't trust is we cannot trust the neurotic mind.

Not that any of you have a neurotic mind.

Of course, but there are people who have minds that are a little bit out of control

and they're spinning stories and all kinds of preoccupations and fantasies and

repetition of the same thing over and over again.

That may be anxiety-based, maybe aversion-based,

maybe just confusion based, and we can be spinning in these thoughts and it's

probably accurate enough to say that, and you're kind of maybe in a kind of a little bit provocative way,

that kind of get you to look at things in a fresh way is that if you're the more you spend your mind

caught up in spinning in your thoughts and your ideas the more something in you trust doing that.

Something in you thinks that that's the way to go, that that's important, that's valuable.

This is the, this is where I'm supposed to be in order to be safe or in

order to find my way in life. This is where the solution is going to come to

my all my life problems if I just think about it some more and it didn't manage

today but I'll just pick it up again tomorrow morning and keep trying and think and think and

think and I've done that in my life and I've had things that I've went on for months and months and months.

You know that I was trying to figure out and solve and get to and just kind of churning away, churning away.

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