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

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Hello and welcome.

And for today's guided meditation as a way to support the teaching afterwards, I'd rather

than some instructions, I'd like to offer you a, I'd like to offer you a kind of an analogy or metaphor. Today, coming down here today,

I biked down to IMC, and I was wondering about the weather.

In one direction to the north, the clouds that I call them clouds, were very dark and seemingly

heavy, and there was kind of a cool crispness in the air, like, crispness that was like Christmas,

like Christmas, confusing myself, a cool crispness in the air that indicated to me that

it was coming.

So I was looking at all this, starting to make sense of it,

and I had looked at my phone for the weather that they provide on the app,

and I said it was cloudy through the morning,

and then it was going to be sunny in the afternoon.

And I knew that in the last week or so we've had a lot of fog, strong, heavy, fog coming in from the coast. And I thought maybe that today was just another,

you know, rather intense version of it. So I decided to bike down. Some years ago, my wife and I were at about 10,000 feet elevation in the Sierra Mountains.

High up, beautiful place.

We had lunch in this beautiful little lake, and we were just resting there.

And we could see even higher peaks a little bit to the west.

And the sky was completely blue and free of clouds.

And then there would be, we would watch,

and kind of directly above some of the highest peaks, they would form a little cloud.

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