The Seduction of Certainty

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This talk was given by Diana Clark on 2025.04.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0	The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.
0:05.8	Please visit our website at adioderma.org.
0:14.0	I guess that helps if I turn the microphone on.
0:18.0	Good evening.
0:20.2	Welcome, welcome. Nice to see you all. So I'm going to start the talk tonight
0:29.8	with this kind of playful, silly, whcle poem.
0:46.0	And unpacked a little bit because it actually allows us to point to a few classical teachings.
0:51.9	And I'm wondering if we can turn down the volume just a tiny bit.
0:53.7	It feels just a little bit loud.
0:54.2	Oh, can we make it just be a little bit louder?
0:56.7	I'm sorry, Jim.
0:57.5	I'm always doing this, right?
0:59.5	Okay, thank you.
1:02.4	Okay, so this poem is called
1:04.1	The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox.
1:08.5	The Cookie Thief by Valerie Cox.
1:13.3	This poem rhymes. It's kind of unusual these days, right? So here we go. A woman is waiting
1:21.4	at the airport one night with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shop,
1:30.1	bought a bag of cookies, and found a place to drop.
1:34.1	She was engrossed in her book but happened to see
1:37.1	that the man beside her, as bold as could be,
1:42.1	grabbed a cookie or two from the bag between, which she tried to ignore to avoid
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