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

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So this morning a quote that I've used a few words. This is a quote that I've used a few

times recently. I don't know why it just tickles me and the more I think about it

the more I see how apt it is and this is a quote. It's from Bicabody. He's an esteemed scholar, translator, practitioner

in our tradition.

And he says, the mind is like a drunken driver, to drive down the middle of the lane but no matter

how hard the driver tries to go straight inevitably they swerve back and forth.

Sometimes they get too close to the car in the next lane.

Sometimes they get too close to the edge of the road.

I just kind of like this, right?

This idea that we see this, right?

This is what meditation practice, we often have this, we really want to be on our object.

For many of us, it's the sensations of people. we really want to be on our object.

For many of us, it's the sensations of breathing,

not everybody.

And as try as we might, we see how the point

is like going to go in all these other places, right,

instead of just being here on the road.

So this quote continues.

Speakabody says a little bit more about this.

He says,

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