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I didn't teach yesterday so on the weeks where I only have one where I only teach once

sometimes they get lazy right and I'll just give an old talk which is fine mean, I generally don't recycle anything from the last year. I'll go back two or three years, find something and polish it off, but I didn't want to do that this time. I thought fuck it. I'll just give a new talk anyway because I have that kind of I get bored pretty quickly and want to do something new and like to keep the brain working by, you know, doing more research, more reflection.

That can be good and be bad.

If you're a music fan when artists have to do something new all the time,

it can be a little bit irritating, right?

A lot of people were fans of Radio Heads OK Computer and then they followed it up with like a bunch of really dreary albums after that and nobody really wanted to. I'm not a big

radio head fan, but I'm not comparing myself, God forbid, to radio head because I don't have anything

to comment with him, but I just sometimes just doing new things for the sake of new things is not so great.

I have no idea where I...

But sometimes it's okay, you know, it keeps it fresh for you, keeps it fresh for me.

So we'll see. I threw this together last night, hopefully some of it will make sense.

So I already had the pages out of order so that would have

definitely not made sense.

Can I talk is on a key Buddhist theme, also a key theme in philosophy and psychology, which is basically, what does it mean to perceive

our life, our experience in the world with less delusion than is common to our mental functioning.

Now you'll notice I'm taking for granted

that there is always a level of delusion

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