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

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Practice. practice.

Many years ago I saw an interview with a young man who described some particular thing he did before and after he had a baby, a young child. Before he had a child, he apparently spent maybe a whole day, quite a bit of time in the weekend, driving his motorcycle

all over.

And he said, it was really great.

That's how I distressed from the week, was going to my motorcycle and driving around. But when I have this

kid, I couldn't take that much time off anymore. So I had to find a way to distress quickly.

And so what he found was he would go early in the morning just before dawn, sneak into a high rise that was being constructed in the city, go up to the top floor,

and then with a paraglider, he would jump and glide into the streets. I don't know how far he could go.

And then wherever he was going to go, straight down, maybe a couple of blocks.

There would be a friend would be waiting with a getaway car and he

would pack it all up getting the car and get out of there before because I guess it's not

legal to trespass and jump like that.

But he said, by the time he had landed,

which was only, I don't know, pretty quick,

he had been distressed, he cleared out.

So I'm not recommending this. But many people have something they do that

de stresses them that is one form or other is a way of getting out of our thinking mind so that

what we're preoccupied with just kind of stops and we no longer kind of the

stress and the strain by which we're preoccupied by something has seized,

and then something begins relaxing and settling.

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