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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So, Warm greetings from Insight Meditation Center here in Redwood City, California, and I prefer to introduce myself that way,

but just saying that I'm here on this earth

with all of you, all of us together. It's widespread. So thank you for being here. This week

we're discussing attitude, attitudes and these are the background moves, the background

filters through which we, how we see, how we speak, how we act in the world that are often not brought into consciousness and an

underlying attitude that pervades everything and one of those can be the attitude that we know that our thinking

the way we understand things is accurate and so if we know

something which is not a hard fact but an opinion which is a judgment or an evaluation and we treat it as fact, then we can get

into trouble.

And sometimes these are opinions we have about ourselves that sometimes there's

delusions of grander, sometimes there's a delusion of the opposite of that.

Sometimes it has to do with delusions

about the world around us that we know something.

We think we know somebody.

We know their motivations, their intentions,

we know, just a lot of knowing.

And the meditation as well, there can be this attitude like that I know what's supposed to happen, I know what is happening.

And one of the useful attitudes is the attitude not knowing.

Not so that you're ignorant,

not so that you are somehow allow something to persist that is harmful for you but rather that you don't harm yourself we

don't harm ourselves with the so-called knowledge we have the opinions we

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