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

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Thank you and so thank you Hillary for reminding me about the day along on Saturday.

I did remember I haven't forgotten it but I didn't know the time so I guess it's 830 to 5 you said

so that so we to five you said? So the last thing that we were scheduled to do when the pandemic began was a day long year and I came down early and made a sign and sat on the deck

and said nope.

We're closed. So for me it comes in a full circle now. It's been slightly more than four years.

Before years and two weeks that since we had that cancelled day long,

so we're making up for it.

And if it is from 830 to 5, those are the day longs

where they're mostly silent through the day and I give a few words at the beginning of the day and a talk at the end and I'm available for practice discussion through the day.

There's a whole series of sign-ups during the walking period.

So it's a kind of a wonderful opportunity to engage in your own practice and community in silence.

And when I do day longs from 9 to 4.30,

those have guided meditation instructions

through the day.

So that's so, you're all welcome to come and I'm certainly looking forward to starting them up again.

So, I thought I would try to offer you a meditator's orientation to the sense of self.

The sense of self is very amorphous.

Psychologists who use this term sometimes

well, some of the definitions they give is like the collection of beliefs about the self.

Some people go a little bit further to say it's the

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