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

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So welcome to you all.

Nice to see some names there.

So yeah, good to be back with you.

It's sometimes a week away feels like not so long.

This time felt like a long time.

And yeah, thank you for the questions you've submitted. I'll answer more of those at some point and let those inform the topics that I try to address. One question I saw that I thought maybe should just very briefly address was something

like why certain Wednesdays isn't just plain Wednesdays, like in the suggestion, very

reasonable to get substitute teachers on weeks that I'm away.

And I get that.

And partially it's just to be, you know, gets more stressful administratively to do.

So some of it's my laziness.

And but there's also a kind of fire hose. to do, so with some of it's my laziness.

But there's also a kind of fire hose of online Dharma, you know, and that's mostly a great thing.

And it has also perhaps driven down the kind of value placed on offerings too. And so anybody I could potentially get to sub as a wealth of online stuff already.

And that kind of market effect, that kind of that logic of the marketplace of just the kind of hyperavailability

I think is is generally great but it's also complicated and the Dharma really only

works under the assumption of certain, you know, preciousness or rarity maybe.

And so that was on my mind too.

And then also just like subbing, subbing is a bad gig for the sub, you know, generally.

Like when there's an established teacher who has effectively driven away all the people that

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