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

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Warm greetings

and cloudy

kind of little bit wet

California here

light rain through the week and clouds

cool weather

and I like it quite a bit

maybe from my

leftover from

my native town and Norway where I was born

Bergen where it rains quite a bit

cloudy quite a bit

so my friends there are many motivations

for meditating

but the ones that Buddhism somehow holds up

central to the Buddhist enterprise

could all be subsumed under the expression

benefit we are meditating practicing Buddhism

to benefit and who are we benefiting

everyone the Buddha said that a wise person

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