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

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So hello and welcome to our morning meditation.

And we're going to, I want to start by saying that one of the ways of appreciating Buddhist teaching

is that they are oriented around the idea that the teachings, the practices we do,

should be appropriate for the state of mind we're in,

that our state of mind, our inner life, changes over time.

And that the change is not random. It is, it is, it is a lot of conditions that affect it.

And one of them is the practice itself.

And classically, the practice is understood to be a journey.

There's a path model.

And so as we practice on the path, on different parts of the path,

different practices are appropriate, different approaches,

different ways of being, and also different understandings come along, different understanding that what's happening happen. So when we have Buddhist teachings, sometimes they're pointing

or being spoken from a particular state of mind orientation,

whereas the audience might not be there yet.

And so there's a little bit of a mismatch there.

But one of the key aspects of the path that we're on

and how we change over time,

is that wherever you are now is the right place for you.

It's the perfect place.

Even though there is a path that goes from A to B,

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