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

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So welcome, and I am sitting here up in the hills above Lake Tahoe in California, where I've been on a vacation

for almost a week, going back, hiking in the hills here in the mountains, at fairly high elevation.

And this is our last morning here,

and driving back to home in Redwood City,

and we'll be broadcasting from IMC tomorrow again.

So... We'll be broadcasting from IMC tomorrow again. So, welcome.

So this is different than how it usually is.

And so it kind of speaks to the theme of still focusing on, which is change, and inconstancy,

impermanence.

And so, surprisingly, there's a new place, new situation.

And the central focus that Buddhism has on Anitja, the poly word that's usually translated as impermanence,

that more literally means inconstancy, and is in the family of words like change.

Buddhist has these three expressions they use us together.

In constancy, change, becoming different.

And change has three important characteristics.

And as we become wiser about impermanence, change, things becoming different in constancy,

it's useful to keep in mind these three aspects.

One is that change means that something that was will no longer be.

Another thing it means is things that were not happening are now happening.

So change can be welcome and unwelcome. Something that is unfortunate can come to an end and we celebrate perhaps or it's a relief

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