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

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Just say a few words about the practice for this morning. This week, kind of the overall

theme I'm using in my teachings as attitude, and one of the attitudes that we can an attitude is something

in an orientation a mood understanding that may not be so conscious but we just of, we carry with us everywhere we go, and so that we see

the things through that attitude.

And one kind of attitude that can be pervasive or be reoccurring at every juncture that we come to is that something is wrong.

Something's wrong with me, something's wrong with others, something's wrong with me something's wrong with others something's wrong with the

situation something's a problem and in some conventional way yes it's sure there's

could be something wrong here if you tire head if if your tire in your car is flat when you come out here

that's wrong for that stay and or it's a problem. But to have this attitude that things are wrong, attitude that things are a problem,

carries kind of a wind drag. It's kind of like having the brakes on the car and you're trying to move the car forward.

It kind of makes things difficult.

And so there's another way to do this, and that is don't see anything as wrong or anything is a problem, but rather see it

as something that needs to be addressed, something that needs a response, something in one of of the in mindfulness practices we're doing

walking and sitting that primary response is oh this is something to bring my

attention to this is something to be aware of and have more presence and attention with.

What's going on here and what's going on more deeply here for myself as I do this?

Or if... as I do this or if there's something happens here and the building that you know that's

you know maybe the one of the toilets doesn't work it's neither

wrong nor a problem but it is something to address so how do we respond to that and so then how we respond is not the same thing as what we do to respond.

What's the manner by which we're not seeing it the problem? We're not seeing it as wrong, but we are seeing something that we should care for?

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