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

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Morning. It is quite nice to be back here and those of you haven't been here much. I've been gone for the last maybe five weeks or something.

And then it got maybe five weeks or something.

And then it goes away for the month of July.

And so for better or for worse,

I thought I would tell you what I did my summer.

And as a kind of background for this talk,

maybe as a question for you to carry with you as you listen to the

talk or after the talk is around the topic that in Buddhism, it's maybe at least in our tradition, it's less interesting

to ask the question of yourself, who am I, than it is to ask the question, what is my nature?

What is natural for us here?

And when you ask the question, what is natural for you,

that When you ask a question, what is natural for you,

that can highlight the second question,

what is not natural?

And this, of course, raises lots of interesting

philosophical questions and protests very quickly.

But what is it that belongs to the natural world, distinct from the social world.

Distinct from the social world and the mental world we live in,

where we construct, we fabricate, we make up all kinds of ideas in which we live in that we don't question. We take

it as just this is how things are. But to start questioning the distinction between what is natural

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