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

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Hello again from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and this is the last morning I'll be here for this time.

And it's been a wonderful time with my three teachers,

Tueri Sala and Darao Williams and Kaira Jule Lingo.

And... Williams and Kyra Jewel Lingo and also with the retreatments here and have all of Spirit Rocks. It's a wonderful place to practice, as you see in these wonderful kind of rolling hills behind me.

We're nestled into these hills and spent much of the time when we have to go between places outdoors and as you can also see these days if you've been following the

weather changes quite a bit and that's part of the joy of being at spirit rock being outdoors

and i've been here many many years over you know i guess i've been coming here for 35 years

and no matter what the weather is i'm happy hot, hot, cold, stormy.

So, welcome to the meditation. And one of the characteristics, factors that come into play in meditation that stands out in highlight in the third Janna, is equanimity.

It becomes even more significant in the fourth Janna, but it already appears here.

And together with mindfulness, with sati, awareness, and clear recognition, clear comprehension, some

pajana, and equanimity. And one of the meanings of the word Upeka, equanimity, is to have a kind of an overview, a bird's eye view of our situation, how we are at the moment, the current experience, that puts it into a wider context that allows us to hold it in a spacious

way, hold it generously, hold it without getting caught in any reactivity, the reactivity of being for and against, the activity of

translating the experience into a story, a prediction of the future, without the reactivity

that wants to assign meaning to the experience,

or the orientation to measure the experience,

or relate the experience to ideas of me, myself, mine, this is who I am.

Just this wide, spacious overview, with no inclinations to have thoughts about who am I, what am I, where am I.

Because the overview, the broad perspective, the spacious open perspective,

feel so complete, so satisfying, that none of the reactivity is needed.

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