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

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Good morning everyone and it's going to be a little bit louder or you have more just

let's see is it I don't hear is it coming through now it's coming great. Oh I'm sorry. We have one more announcement. Thank you Kristen. I've been on your walks. They're really wonderful.

So this is just a very quick announcement.

We have mindful parents next Sunday at 1115 here,

and we're exploring the eightfold path and parenting. So please join us if you can and it's

about mindful speech.

So we do have a tea today and that everyone's welcome to stay and we have a kind of an abundance of

goodies today because yesterday we had a memorial service here and there was lots of wonderful things left over

so please stay if you'd like and you'll see this is a bouquet of flowers in the outer

hall and that was left over from the from the Moral Service.

I put the program we had on the table there.

Some of you might have known Trudy Opitz who died and we had a kind of a wonderful remembrance of her yesterday with family and friends.

And so you can see the program if some of you knew her next to that stand to flowers.

So, today I want to talk about a topic which may or may not be popular. And that topic is faith.

And some people love this topic, some people use the word of it

raises a alarm for them.

And I do hope that in the course of the talk,

the talk will be inspiring something in you and there's a number of steps that we're going to go through.

The first is going to be something that maybe isn't so popular, but is linguistic.

What word are we talking about?

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