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

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So, maybe... So maybe people are still coming.

And I'll start by saying how grateful I am for all of you who come to YouTube.

It's been a wonderful thing to be able to offer these kinds of teachings and it was my you know when I first

decided to dedicate my life to Buddhist Buddhist practice,

which was now over 40 years ago.

The image I had for myself was that I was going to be a Zen priest, a Zen monk,

and I'd have the key to a small storefront meditation center on some city and that pretty much was just like a room.

I had the key and I'd keep it clean in the place and I'd go early in the morning and open up the door and sit and meditate with

whatever who ever came to support their meditation. And so this idea of getting up in the

morning and sitting with people was something that's always been in my mind as a central part of what my life was going to be about.

And I do that on retreats.

Certainly I'm very happy I get up for the first sitting

and I love doing it.

But here, since we started this YouTube

at California at 7 a.m.

I just delight at the chance to get up in the morning get ready at breakfast and

then come down here and be able to sit with people and it's not quite a

storefront we have here but I don't know exactly what this YouTube space is but it's very

very satisfying and I'm happy to be part of this and to do this.

And the idea, I can't imagine that we'll stop doing this YouTube now.

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