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

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Good evening. Welcome. Welcome.

So there's a story that sometimes gets told.

It's in the Polycanon.

I kind of like this story.

Briefly, it goes like an individual is wandering in the forest. And they, we could say, stumble upon like this

what looks like a path.

Like they could tell that maybe all the jungle plants aren't quite the same in this little

area.

So in my mind, they're like hacking away. And they

discover, oh yeah, this is actually a paved road, or it was a paved road. And they follow it and

hacking their way through. And they get to what was an ancient city. And with a little bit of work,

they start to see, oh yeah, like here's a wall of a part of the city and looks like of some

ponds or lakes or something like this. So they don't clear the entire city,

but enough to get a sense of what was there.

Wow, what a discovery.

And then they go back and tell the king,

hey, I discovered this old ancient city.

That's, you know, with this old ancient road

and tells the king that, you know, you should maybe like, you know, excavate this road and this city.

And the king does, and then starts to inhabit the city and lives happily ever after.

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