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

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Hello on this Monday morning

And welcome

For those of you who are here on Friday

Apologies for our technological challenges here at IMC

and things had been changed in the recording equipment

and not put back together properly

so that it took a while to figure out what the issue was

and so we didn't really do last Friday. And it works out well because I'll

finish the series today. And then I have a four-part series for the rest of the week. So that works out.

So... four-part series for the rest of the week. So that works out. So the topic last week was the four noble truths. And the Buddha has a very strong orientation

to look at conditionality,

to look at how one thing conditions another,

one thing sets up the conditions for something else to arise.

And so suffering is not all bad in the Buddha's teachings.

Because suffering is the necessary condition to really understand suffering, to see it, to stop for it, to care for it,

sets up the conditions for having an inspiration,

a confidence, a faith, in a path to the ending of suffering.

And that is a beautiful thing to have.

To have an inspiration and enthusiasm,

a confidence, a trust.

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