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

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Hello.

And happy Memorial Day here we are on a holiday wishing for all those families who have lost loved ones and in wars

wishing the best for them and honoring those people I've died in so many different ways.

Sometimes for Memorial Day. We didn't do it this year, but in years past, my mom and I, we would get some plastic flowers and we would bring them to

graves of you know of our family people who have died and then I just love to

bring tons and just put them on other people's graves.

You know, I don't know who these people are, but just this idea of honoring other people. imagining the delight if a family member were to come and like

oh look somebody left some flowers for our family member here.

So just holding in our hearts,

those families and who have lost loved ones.

And so today I'd like to talk about something,

maybe I'll like weave together a tapestry in some kind of way.

But using different elements, different, I use this word elements to point towards something.

And this whole idea of journeying or this idea of being on a path, maybe a road trip in some kind of way.

And I'm going to start with the passage that's from the Madhamanakaya.

And this is Ganaka Mogulana, who is going to

to the Buddha and he had asked the Buddha, and he had asked the Buddha, like, is, do you

have like a training program?

Like all the other professionals have training programs.

The accountants, he's an accountant.

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