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

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Thank you. Warm greetings from the Insight Meditation Center and it's wonderful to come down from my home to sit here and share the Dharma, share the meditation.

Thank you.

Greetings.

Thank you for being here.

And there's a short saying, Buddhist saying,

the shortest version of it in English could be,

for wisdom, be tranquil.

If you want to become wise, cultivate tranquility.

In fact, the Therabad and path of meditation is sometimes called samata vipasana in Pali.

In English, that would be tranquility and insight.

And part of the function of developing concentration is to have a good amount of

tranquility so that awareness can do some deep inner work.

That's hard for awareness to do if the awareness is hijacked

by our reactivity, by our emotions, by our preferences and likes and dislikes, by the stories that

the mind spins out. And so, tranquility is important. And there are three different kinds of

tranquility. There's tranquility of the body, tranquility of the mind, and then separate from those two, there's tranquility of mindfulness,

tranquility of awareness itself. And sometimes, if there's can cultivate some degree of

tranquility of body, it supports tranquility of the mind.

Some tranquility of the mind supports tranquility of awareness.

But sometimes that's not possible.

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