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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. So hello and welcome.

And it perhaps goes without saying that a session of meditation is a session of practice.

Buddhist meditation involves Buddhist practice, and one of the great moments or moments,

happens repeatedly, experiences in doing Buddhist practice, is having some kind of experience

that confirms the value of the practice

so that a person knows for themselves this practice is good.

This practice works.

And not only, you know, in some kind of small way,

but it's confirmed how profoundly significant,

invaluable this practice is.

And it can be profoundly inspiring.

So that no matter what circumstance we're in, we know we have something we can do,

even if we're confused, even if it's uncertain what to do in conventional ways, at least we can bring the practice into what we're doing, what's happening

here. And so in talking about the practice and the, is that it involves a deep confidence in a few things.

Deep confidence in not being distracted.

Deep confidence in being undistracted.

And it's a deep confidence in not making it worse.

Deep confidence and not bringing to bear to the situation any unwholesome

attachments, any unwholesome behavior, speech, or states of mind, activities of mind, to not be involved in anything

that fits under the category of greed, anything that fits under the category of hatred or ill-will,

and to not complicate the situation by having doubt or having some kind of

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