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

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Good morning, good day, good evening, wherever you are, whatever time it is, welcome,

welcome. So today I'd like to Welcome.

So today I'd like to continue this sense of the faculties for Fearlessness.

Just want to recognize that, you know, fear, I think we all know what fear is, but it shows up in our lives in so many different ways,

maybe in some ways of which we're not really connecting with fear.

And one of them is perfectionism, this always like finding flaws that need to be fixed before we can share something or show something,

you know, always trying to fix everything.

Or maybe there's a sense of like, well, I have to wait for when. Like I can't do something

right now because there has to be a time when things are more comfortable. So maybe we're like holding back something we want to do with our life or say to somebody or whatever it might be.

Start that more healthy behavior or something like this.

Or maybe there's a way in which fear shows up in which we're trying to avoid uncertainty.

We're trying to have everything planned out beforehand or

understand it and have it, I don't know, being known in some kind of way, this fear

of the unknown.

So we're trying to make sure there aren't any unknowns,

but of course, of course we can't be certain about everything.

These are just some of the ways in which fear shows up. It turns out to be such a big part of our lives.

And then I'd like to offer these five days, these five faculties.

Many of you all know this, this is a very conventional list

that we talk about in early Buddhism.

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