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

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So good morning, everyone.

Good day, welcome.

And this morning, as a way of beginning,

I would like to evoke the image of standing on a wonderful high mountain peak and on a very clear day. And this mountain peak is on the edge of a vast land that's below.

Nothing is higher and you can see a far distance, the great plains below, the mountain ranges to the north, the ocean to the west, great rivers to the east.

And in standing there on this day, you look around and what stands out is all the different

weather's that you can see. In some areas you see that it's raining, clouds,

maybe rainbows, and other direction maybe higher up you can see in the distance

far from you where it's sunny. you can see that's even snowing.

Down below, you see across where the ocean is, you see fog banks coming in.

It's clear that down in the valleys that somehow the wind is turning and maybe the soils being kicked up

so that you see little tornadoes or windstorms.

And other places further down, you see that it is blue skies far to the south and places where it looks like it's

maybe almost desert-like and clear, warm, it looks down there.

And so you see that so many different kinds of weather.

As you watch it, you see it's shifting and changing.

Clouds move, rain comes and goes.

But what stands out is that even though you can differentiate these different parts of the weather,

it's just all part of the same weather system. They're all interrelated. You could in some sense say that there's no, there's a continuity

between all the different weather that you see, that there's no, there's a continuity between all the different weather that you see,

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