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

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Welcome, welcome, everybody.

Nice to see you all.

I'll just say those of you sitting in the back on the floor,

you're perfectly welcome to stay there,

but you're also welcome to come up here

if it's a little bit easier to not be behind chairs.

So you can do whatever you please.

So I'd like to begin tonight by just telling a little story that's captured in the early

Buddhist literature.

And it's the story of a king who had decided, maybe I'll back up and say,

king, sometimes we can think of them,

they are lay people, they're not monastics,

and they have a lot of power, of course they do,

and they have a lot of wealth.

So they just represent, at least in my mind,

those individuals have power and wealth. So there's this king who decided to renounce being a king and he was going to be a monastic underneath the

Buddha. And he took the name Badiya, Badiya. And so he would do what monastics do at this time of the Buddha.

They spent time meditating.

And so they would be like a group of people practicing together,

and they could hear him saying something,

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