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

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Nice to see you all.

Here on a Monday night, on a rainy day. Well, it was rainy earlier. So I'd like to start tonight's talk by sharing a short little story that ended up having a big impact on me and I didn't quite appreciate the

magnitude of the impact until quite some time later. This was back when I was working in Corporate America and I remember just being upset or angry or you know I don't remember the details but I just remember being upset about something that you know somebody had done and I was telling my friend I was complaining and I was saying just saying, yeah, well, you know, this person said this and because that person doesn't like this other person, then they sent this email.

And because that email happened,

then this other person came to my office,

and you're like all this kind of stuff,

you know, all this stuff happening.

So this happened, that happened, and you know this.

And I had a whole story of why it happened.

Well, this person thinks that they know everything,

therefore they did blah. This other person never pays

attention, therefore they did blah. You know, something I was kind of like attributing like, you know,

all those motivations or something like them something like that to these

individuals and why I was being you know poor me poor Diana. This bad thing happening.

And my friend, like bless her heart.

She said, wow, that's quite something, Diana.

So let's see if we can come up with another story as the same facts.

This person said that you got an email and somebody was in your

office. I'm like, what do you mean? Another story. No, this is what happened.

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