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

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Okay, so welcome folks.

Ah, sweet.

Sweet.

Okay. Okay, so I'll say a few words and we'll sit.

So, I'll say a few words and we'll sit.

So, So to let let go let go of our

life, my so-called life,

to let go of our narrative project,

that's hard, it's difficult it's difficult it's it's

difficult not to sort of embed all phenomena in a coherent narrative web.

And we sort of just keep adding the moment to the kind of story of me, just keep adding a tiny thin little chapter to our autobiography.

And we don't check that habit at the door

when we start to meditate, right?

It's sort of like every meditative phenomena, every experience with

concentration or distraction with pleasure and pain, all of that gets kind of incorporated into this narrative structure.

It's like sometimes like the sort of Morgan Freeman-Darma voiceover, you know, with our meditation. and it's very natural and

is very natural and adaptive in a lot of ways.

And it's very natural and adaptive in a lot of ways and awareness renounces language,

beginning to pick up on this. announces language.

Beginning to pick up on this theme a week ago, awareness kind of renounces language.

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