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

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Okay.

So, the... Okay. And so the Buddha's path began with a recognition that something about his life was unsustainable.

And as the story goes before leaving unsustainable. Unsustainable.

And as the story goes before

leaving the palace,

he was living

in a kind of illusion.

And then he realized

that pleasure

couldn't go on forever.

And there's a kind of recognition.

He saw the human condition was inherently unstable, ruled by uncertainty.

And this recognition generated some by uncertainty. And

this recognition generated some fear

as the

illusion of a governable,

permanent pleasure

crumbled.

And he sought security instead in relinquishment. And in a way, you could say, he sought security by being infinitely vulnerable to the world.

And perhaps the ambient anxiety of

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