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

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Look at this. Like this, often we have some idea of what we want or don't want and if we're really engaged in that we

recruit our senses to support it. So for example if you're really I go to the supermarket and you know

greedy for something maybe it's your favorite kind of chocolate or ice cream or something,

but somehow it's not in the shelf it's supposed to be in. So you recruit your eyes to really search like where is it where is it where is it

that's me somewhere you do I ask you know and so the you know your eyes are

being recruited by your agendas yourself in a sense.

If fear is a big part of our life, which it is for many people, then maybe our senses are

recruited by the fear.

So hearing, it means, so it might be that you hear someone coming in through the front door here and

and just a door opening and closing for some people some people, it's danger. So now we're really listening.

Like, how heavy are those footsteps? And is it, you know, is it some kind of monster, 20 foot monster?

Or is it just this, you know, what can I pick up

from the sounds of the steps? And so like it's recruited, you know what can I pick up from the sounds of the steps and so like it's

recruited you know for that for our fear to protect ourselves and if we really

like pleasure, and then we might recruit some pleasure door to really savor it and really get into it and really feel it. If we feel some mood or you know some

you don't feel kind of off or depressed or something there's a way in which we

then recruit our senses to get

confirmation for there's reasons to be sad or upset or something and you know the sunlight not just quite right it's a little bit

dim and yeah it's such a drag today and we're kind of like taking it in a certain way.

So the city of recruiting our senses for all these different

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