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

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So good morning or good day and welcome to this period of time that we're going to explore

we're exploring insight for inside meditation and when I practice as the San Francisco Zen Center, there was a quote from the founder,

Suzuki Roshi, that went something like this.

You're perfect just the way you are, and there's room for improvement.

And maybe I would say we're perfect just the way we are, but there's a possibility of further

growth, further transformation. So this emphasis on being perfect that goes along with how in the modern mindfulness movement,

there has been a big emphasis on mindfulness being non-judgmental awareness,

where mindfulness is practiced with a kind of a radical acceptance of how we are.

And that's true up to a point, that, or in a particular way, it's true,

that this radical acceptance, non-judgmental awareness,

means we don't condemn anything or resist anything, but we also see clearly, that's the

insight piece, and we see where there can be improvement. We see where we have tendencies,

thoughts, impulses, actions that we do that are not in harmony with a deep

settleness, a deep freedom, a deep, a deep settleness, a deep freedom,

a deep integrity

that is possible to live with.

And we are looking, in fact,

to not live anymore, acting on impulses of greed, hatred, and delusion.

We are looking to become, to grow our capacity for wisdom, for peace, for joy, for love,

wonderful capacities that we can develop.

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