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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello everyone and welcome.

And as an introduction to this meditation,

I would like to evoke the emotion, the attitude of love as a part of meditation, integral part of it.

And I'll use a metaphor now that it's getting cold,

sometimes the windshield on my car is frosted over.

And there have been times when it was so frosted over it took some time to be able to clear the ice to drive away.

And so there's different options of how to bring back the clarity in the windshield.

One is to simply wait for the sun to come up, and the sun will slowly warm it up. Another way is to

turn on the car and the defrosterer and let the coils that are in the windshield slowly warm up or let

the heater in the car slowly below warm air on the glass. And then with time the glass will be warm enough that the ice melts.

The other option is to go out and get a ice scraper and to scrape away the ice.

And sometimes that's easy if it's just a little light frost,

and sometimes it takes a lot of work to get a thick layer of crusty ice off the windshield and especially when it's really cold and it kind of

frosted up right away as even as I scrape it be. So when we sit to meditate, the liberation that we're looking for is, could be understood

to be clarity. to be clear of the obstructions to our

seeing, to be clear of the

perception, so that's our clings, our

clingings, our conceits, our fears, all of them which agitate, all of them which obstruct in some way.

And we could try to let go, we can try to scrape it away, and if it's a light frost maybe that works fine. But

or we could let the warmth melt we, to the

the inner warmth that we, to defrostor in ourselves,

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