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

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Okay.

So I just, I'll start by saying this month we've been talking about the simile of the

raft.

Many of you are familiar with this.

I'll quote here a little bit about how it shows up in the suit does.

Imagine, a person in the course of a journey arrives at a great expanse of water

whose near shore is dubious and perilous

and whose far shore was a sanctuary free of peril

but there's no ferry boat or bridge to take them across the water.

So the person thinks,

what if I collected grass, twigs, branches, and leaves

and bound them together as a raft?

And then supported by the raft and paddling with my hands and feet,

I should then be able to reach the far shore.

That's kind of the abbreviated version of the simile of the raft.

And through the weeks I talked about the near shore, and Yonle talked about the floods,

this big expanse of water.

Last week I talked about how to make a raft.

And this week I'd like to talk about the far shore.

Like, what is this far shore?

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