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

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So good day,

day and it's raining here, which is quite lovely.

I'm very fond of the rain.

Though I think I'm fond of all the weather,

maybe because being in the weather means being outdoors and just a wonderful connection to feel the world through the outdoor atmosphere, air, weather, ground.

I was happy coming down here today.

So becoming wise about thinking is not only useful for ourselves, it's also useful for this world of ours.

And I'll talk more about that later today.

But one way of becoming wise about thinking is to have a clear sense of

the source of thinking. Where inside of us does thinking begin?

What triggers it? What energizes it?

What influences its mood and

and the characteristics of the influences its mood and

characteristics of the thinking that we do.

Before we start thinking, before there's a thought,

what is the environment in which thinking will occur? What's the emotional state we have? What are the beliefs we have? What are the fears or desires which are motivating or influencing how we think?

And are we thinking, and from where are we thinking, From where the thoughts arise? Many people, if you say it's a

common that someone seems stuck in their thoughts, they might point to their head.

They're all up in their head meaning

there's thinking a lot about things and is in fact for you the location for thinking in the head and might there be other locations from which thinking

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