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

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Welcome to our YouTube meditation time.

And some of us wrote the links are still wonky.

So I use the calendar link today and that worked for me fine.

So I don't know, maybe there are other places that hasn't been fixed.

So maybe if some of you are trying other places to get a link to the YouTube,

maybe you can put in the chat where you tried and where you found it not working.

And I can't really ask the people who haven't made it here,

who are maybe kind of not finding a good link.

So a little team of people have been working hard to figure out what's going on.

There's some idea that maybe something has changed at YouTube about settings or something went wonky.

So, so welcome.

And I believe there comes a time when it's useful to consider that meditation, Buddhist meditation, mindfulness meditation,

involves a very different paradigm, very different orientation or basis than how we ordinarily go about our lives.

And not necessarily to dismiss or belittle how we go through our ordinary lives, the concerns and orientations we have.

But to add to it a very different way of being, at least for a short time.

Maybe it's as different as between being awake and our ordinary life, taking care of all kinds of things, and then sleeping.

Both are needed, but you don't want to continue doing all the activities in your life in your sleep.

And that doesn't belittle what we do in life to sleep, it actually enhances them because it hopefully makes us refreshed for it.

So the same way with meditation, it's something that's different than both the activities and usual ways of mind works.

And it's also different than sleep.

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