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

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know, there's that saying.

There's that saying if you think you're enlightened, you know, go home, spend some time with family for the weekend or something, right?

But the original saying is, if you think you're

enlightened, leave two hours early for a 30 minute commute, be stymied by an entire closure of Market Street, sit in basically a traffic parking lot for 90 minutes

while people dressed as Ken and Barbie

and Super Mario Kart just lap you, you know, and

and remember that the last time you were supposed to be here,

you didn't put it in your calendar and completely forgot it and come from a

lineage of guilt- prone people and

I did okay maybe, like C minus maybe.

But I'm happy to be like C, C minus maybe.

But I'm happy to be here now.

So.

Okay. Okay, so, the, the, Anicha, at the center of experience.

And we said, the world trembles in all directions.

Anicha is usually rendered as impermanence and connotes two things in that way, the impermanence of people,

places things that were all ruled by finitude and all it's all breaking apart and and so on

and so on the one hand there's the this level of Anichia that the dying is in the

being born and then there's another level of Anicha, which is kind of like the micro,

micro experience of change, of change being a kind of gateway for understanding, for certain kind of

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