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

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Good evening. Welcome, welcome.

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Nice to see you all.

It's nice to sit together.

So tonight I wanted to talk a little bit about the holiday season.

It's not uncommon to see reference to or hear reference to or something about this idea

of a wish list, this idea of, you know, things that are wanted. If this exists year-round,

we often have wish lists. We even have, you know, organic Amazon, right? Just has a little wish list.

Make the, all these online, I shouldn't say all,

many of the values, online things have,

just make it as easy as possible for you to just click-a-click-click,

and there you go.

You can make a list of all the things

that you wish that you had, that you wanted.

And so this way there's, and maybe in particular this time of year, I don't know, there's this like this valorization of desire, like it's really held up, oh,

what is your wish list? What do you want? Whether that's because of the new year, because

of Christmas, or for other holidays.

And what is this sense of what do we want?

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