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

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Welcome. Welcome.

Welcome.

For our fifth and last day that we're talking about the

inter-critic.

I did a little typo when I initially was putting the title for this session.

I put five of 50 instead of five and it seems like we could do 50, right? Seems like the inner critic or maybe it just, maybe it's just me. But I feel like, wow, there's a lot of stuff that we could do here.

I've been describing the inner critic as this dynamic,

that often happens.

Not everybody has it, but a lot of people do a surprising number of people do in fact there's a way in which it seems like so many of us are moving through life, like projecting, I got it together, I know what I'm doing, and it's quite

something because so many people don't actually feel like they have it together, And that we're all like pretending like we do.

It's this, I don't know, part of how our culture is these days.

So this inner critic of this dynamic of putting us down, belittling us, and blaming ourselves, nagging at ourselves,

and maybe comes with a sense of shame, like shame for just who we are in some vague kind of way and

has this feeling of harshness that's certainly not pleasantas-and-or-this feeling of you I'm not a not-for I'm not worthy or something like this that are often

settle and pervasive. So they often can be unnoticed and there's this way in which it can just like creep in and it might be a little bit familiar.

So familiar is like, okay, we just are like putting on some clothing

that, or shoes, putting on a certain amount of shoes,

but shoes are a little bit uncomfortable,

but they're the shoes.

There are shoes, so we put them on.

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