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

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Hello and welcome to this meditation, to this, to Ins meditation center in Redwood City, California.

And welcome to this YouTube community of people coming together to meditate and to

hear the Dharma. I appreciate this opportunity. And the topic for this week has been

something that maybe is not automatically welcome to address, but this is suffering in all the different

forms that it takes. And from the mildest

stress to the greatest catastrophes of life. And Buddhism, Buddhist practice, the meditation

practice we're doing, was designed to address some of the deepest existential issues of our life

and to address them directly and unflinchingly.

So... So, there's many different perspectives, many different ways of understanding, seeing, experiencing,

what we might call suffering.

And as we do this practice of mindfulness, of samadhi, of insight,

a time comes when the challenges of our life, the challenges of our direct experience,

challenges of our emotions, emotional life, our physical life, is experienced, is

seen, is known from a place of great stillness. There's a place within. We find a place in awareness, in the heart, in the mind,

deep inside, in the belly, or someplace that has no location at all,

that there is a profound sense of stillness,

something unmoving,

something imperturbable.

It might be being inside in a very quiet, still room,

looking out the window,

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