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

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Welcome.

Welcome.

Nice to see you all and to practice together.

So tonight I wanted to talk a little bit about some attitudes that we might bring to practice that might unknowingly have a big impact. Like some of these attitudes we might not even know that we have them.

And yet their influence is really great, not only in our practice but in our life,

but we can see them. in our

meditation practice.

and maybe work with them in a particular way

with our meditation practice.

And one attitude in particular is one that would like I want to say of course we have it kind of like living in these modern times and that is we might have this mindset or this idea that it's so

important that we're always making progress.

We have to be like moving forward. We have this idea that we have to

always always be improving or moving closer and closer to achieving something or

you have to be advancing or developing or getting better and you know all this

things you kind of get this idea right the sense of like okay we have to be going forward

of course we have this idea of course we do

I mean our kind of like there's a developmental model right just like human development is

that as we age in theory we're maturing and getting wiser and

wiser and learning things.

But not only that, that we have kind of a society

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