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

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As Martha said, I was just asked to give this talk yesterday because Anushka was feeling ill.

And so I just want to send my good wishes, all her good wishes, to Anushka, that she

feel better soon.

So the Buddha said, I teach one thing and one thing only.

Suffering and the end of suffering.

And in the practice, he points out to these three roots of suffering that we all have,

greed, hatred, and delusion.

And all our afflictive mental states arise from those three qualities.

From greed, you know, that includes all the hatred and all the

minor irritations we have. I mean, did I say hatred? Okay, I think it's the wrong word. So greed

includes all the desires we have,

obviously, and hatred, all the, you know, huge variety of ill will that we have in the world,

you know, and delusion is kind of obliviousness to what's really happening at any given moment,

which anybody who's looked at their own minds has found a lot of that, right? And so, you know, these deeply

influences in everything we do, how we respond to each other, how we react in the world.

But the one thing is that within each one of these forces is the seed for transforming into wisdom.

It's like the desire that we have, that the greed we have, is that same force that says, God, I want to be free of the suffering.

So within each one, there's that seed.

The thing that pushes away everything, you know, I hate that.

I don't want that.

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