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

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Good evening. Welcome, welcome.

It feels like the volume is just a tiny bit low.

Can we make it just a little bit louder so I don't have to project my voice.

And I have to keep on talking, maybe just a tiny bit louder. There we go.

Thank you. Thank you, Jim.

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It feels funny for me to be saying, no, higher, lower, higher.

Just right.

Okay.

So, welcome. Welcome. Nice to see you all.

So there's different ways in which the Buddha's teachings are conveyed,

you know, kind of like described of the ways that they've been preserved.

And sometimes they describe a path of practice.

And it can seem like it's pretty straightforward.

Just do one, two, three, four, then bang, you're awakened.

But, you know, I don't think that's anybody's practice unfolds that way

in this particular sequence.

And in a way that's like so clear.

Or maybe there's a way in which the practice is described as the goal of practice

that is nabana, you know, Jim, before you leave.

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