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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. Hello everyone and welcome and welcome to a practice that is meant to place us in the middle of our

lives is meant to place us in the middle of our lives

and to see it through eyes of wisdom.

Place it in the middle of our life

and to see things clearly as they are.

And so there's a kind of, that call for seeing things as they are,

is a call for a certain kind of realism, certain kind of honesty and

truth about what's actually happening here and now, and the emphasis to over, well, for much of what Buddhism has to

teach is to become wise about what we're experiencing here and now at this time.

The city of wisdom and the word panya, the poly word for wisdom, sometimes I think the way it's described and understood,

it could maybe better be translated by the English word insight in that it's about seeing or

understanding something that's right here. Certainly there can be abstract

wisdom but that that kind of encompasses many things and we carry with us.

But insight is something we do here now. There was a story I heard many years ago about a Sufi story about a

person that goes to a Sufi master and says I have this ring and can you engrave a piece of wisdom that's always going to be useful for me on the ring and the Sufi master says okay come back next week and the following week

the Sufi master had the ring ready and on it it said this too will pass. This too will pass.

In Buddhism it's little different, but it's related to that. This too will change.

Anything that is experienced that touches our senses that is something we can think and any thinking, any thought, any

any, this too will change.

And so these eight worldly winds,

this too will change.

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