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

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Jim, can we turn down the volume a little bit?

I'm speaking as quietly as I can.

Maybe, yeah, this is a little bit better.

I think how does, is it a little bit too low for you guys,

or is it okay?

It's okay all right so tonight I'd like to talk a

little bit or share about a story that is in the suit does.

And I think that at least for me and actually I know for a number of people that I've spoken with,

it has some important or meaningful or helpful messages in it or something like this.

So it's a story about this person named Prince Bodie, who is a prince, not surprisingly, and the

Buddha.

And Prince Bodie, he had built a new building.

They call it a long house, which I guess was not uncommon in that time in ancient India.

It's just like it sounds a long

building in which people would stay. And Prince Bodie named it the Pink Lotus

Long House and I just had this thought like right as Pink Lotus Longhouse.

And I just had this thought like right as Jim was ringing the bell.

Pink Lotus Longhouse.

If I ever open a restaurant, you know, it just kind of has like a nice sound to it. I don't think I will ever

be opening a restaurant, but if I were. So Prince Bodie had built this pink lotus long house and he invited the Buddha and his monastics to come and to have a meal there and the Buddha agreed and so the Prince Bodi at his own house has overseas and has all the food prepared for the

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