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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone and welcome. So, what I'd like to suggest today is that we focus the meditation on the faith,

meditation supported by faith.

And faith sometimes is seen as extremely religious phenomena, emotion,

motivation. phenomena, emotion, motivation, and maybe it is. But rather than thinking of it it is, we can't experience and know and something not relevant

to exactly here and now. The faith I propose is the faith and the practice.

And we call on faith to practice here.

With a little bit of kind of analysis we could or orientation we could think of many of us spend much of the day having faith in the wrong things that whatever your mind is preoccupied with, that is something

that you or your mind has faith in, that it's valuable to do so, it's purposeful to do so. And we put a lot of faith into sometimes

fantasy, sometimes planning, sometimes remembering, and reviewing.

And we have put faith in desires for things.

We have faith in aversion and things.

And to put our faith in those things, short changes us.

It limits us.

And instead, when we put faith in the practice, we are making room and space for something within

us, something that's unlimited, something which is not defined by me, myself, and mine, something that can grow and

expand and develop and be creative and be freeing.

And the simplest way of saying what the faith is when we practice is we have faith in being awake.

And I is we have faith in being awake.

And I use this word carefully because instead of saying

faith in being mindful, faith of being aware,

to be awake is a in a sense it doesn't refer to an activity that we do,

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