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

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Okay.

I appreciate it's in the chat and some of the inquiries and maybe next time

here we do some kind of Zoom

add-on where one of the days

converge and have some questions and dialogue.

Happy to do that.

So, our species, generally speaking is looking for the kind of lowest caloric output to get from A to B.

And some level we ask the question like what are the pros and cons of doing

anything whatsoever any any any any uh energy expenditure really needs to be justified.

I'm not a scholar, but my understanding is that energy effort

is amongst the most prominent themes in the sutas. I assume that's the case because freedom,

freedom, you know, is characterized as entering the stream.

But we move against the stream to a different stream.

This is from Majima, 24. move against the stream to a different stream.

This is from Ajima 26,

Bachelor's translation. This dama I have reached is deep, hard to see,

difficult to awaken to, quiet and excellent, not confined by thought, subtle, sensed by the wise.

But people love their place. They delight and revel in their place. It's hard for people who love delight and revel in their place to see this ground,

this conditionality conditioned arising.

And also hard to see this ground, the stilling of inclinations, the relinquishing of bases, the fading away of reactivity, stopping cessation.

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