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

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So hello from Spirit Rock.

I'll be here one more day tomorrow.

And... I'll be here one more day tomorrow. And, uh,

delightful,

kind of comfortably cool,

kind of foggy, cloudy weather.

The clouds, the fog should burn off today,

and we'll have a beautiful blue sky and um and i'm here for a

meditation retreat so maybe a little bit more than usual, I am kind of, I don't know, maybe I could say in love with what it's like to be alive when I live, living close to the world of this unified, harmonious, collected movement in meditation.

And I've been reminded here because of one of the co-teachers,

Kyra Jewel Lingo, who's a nun, and it took that on tradition for 15 years.

And before that lived in spiritual communities about growing up in Italy and having just enough contact with

Catholic monasteries there and to feel the same kind of unification, coziness, warmth, kind of centered in my body in those monasteries

as she has felt, and as I feel here. So when we come to this third, Jana, one characteristic that's important to keep in mind

is that there's no discursive thinking.

And many of us understand our life, make sense of our life, through the thinking mind,

through having a conversation,

explaining things to ourselves, understanding connections between things.

And it's inconceivable that we could have a rich, valuable, safe life,

without negotiating it through thinking a lot. As we come into the third

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