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

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Good evening, good evening, welcome.

Happy President's Day.

I admit, I kind of forgot it was President's Day until just as I was driving here, there was a sign like,

oh, right. I don't have a regular nine to five jobs,

so I sometimes forget that some of these Mondays are holidays. So whatever you did today,

I hope it was delightful and nice. I know when I was a kid, this was ski week, right? With

a present's holiday, we would go skiing or something like that, go enjoy the winter.

So we'll see if there's something that arises in my mind to tie what in President's Day what I'm going to talk about.

There might be nothing, but there might be something.

We'll see.

But I wanted to talk a little bit, starting with this story that's in the suit does.

And the story is of this woman.

Her name is Donan Johnny.

And she stumbles and she's like trips.

And then as she recovers her balance, she says like the homage to the Buddha.

So in my mind, she said something like, oh my God, or Jesus, you know,

it's something like this, right? Except that she says, namotasa, Aguato bar, Araratto, baguato,

some of you will recognize that that's part of of a chant that we do even now today. But here's something that was, you know, thousands of years ago kind of gets recorded as the way that she, like this thing that she says when she trips.

So the veracity of that story is a little bit questionable because I don't think somebody

would say something quite that long.

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