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

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Welcome, welcome everybody. You're welcome to move around if you'd like sitting a chair or move chairs or come up front or something like this. We put chairs not really knowing how many people will be here, so I just want to let you know.

You're moved to where you'll be comfortable.

So I don't know if you guys were like me, but somehow when I first started meditating, I had this idea like, oh, just be relaxing and all those

pesky emotions would just go away and opportunity to just be quiet.

It turns out that didn't happen.

It turns out that didn't happen.

And maybe that's been true for you too, especially if we have a regular meditation practice, if we have a commitment that we're going to sit every morning, for example.

Some mornings we wake up and we're cranky.

So we meditate with crankiness,

or maybe we feel sad,

or maybe we still feel tired or hungry,

you know, like all these types of things.

Or maybe there's some times in which you go to sit to meditate

and you feel really useful and relaxed and steady.

And then maybe a memory comes up and then there's emotion, fear or anger or sadness or

maybe you're thinking about something in the future and fear and anger comes up.

So meditation and emotions, right? They definitely go together.

And we might even have this idea, like,, to be in a weekend means to not have emotions.

That's not how it works. It's not that we get rid of emotions.

It's instead that the suffering that we are adding to emotions doesn't

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