Listening for What's Beneath the Suffering
6/9/202644 min
This talk was given by Diana Clark on 2026.06.08 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California. Please visit our website at audiodharma.org.
Diana Clark· Guest0:08
Good evening. Welcome, welcome. Can we have the volume just a tiny bit higher? Thank you, Tim. Nice to see you all. I appreciate practicing together, sitting together. So often we come to a meditation practice with this view that maybe we don't even know that we have because it seems so obvious. It's not a view, it's just reality. And that is this idea that when there's difficulty, when there's uncomfortableness, this is a problem that has to be fixed. And it seems like, what, what are you talking about, Diana? Uh, f- what... That's a view that this is just the way the world works. We have to fix all these problems, and every time we feel uncomfortable, that's a problem. It's fascinating how we have this idea that if we're uncomfortable, then something has gone wrong or that we're failing in some kind of way or something needs to stop or something