This week’s talk is by Robert Yanasak. Robert (Seiko Taikan) is retired as a Mechanical Design Draftsman/Supervisor at Perkin-Elmer, Leica and other Bay Area companies. He writes: “My attraction to Buddhism wasn’t to be a Buddhist but rather to follow the Buddha’s advice that if I wanted to know what was going on around me I needed to turn my attention inwards and look there. The rest evolved circumstantially. I love my practice more then anything and I know I’ve never been a very good buddhist based on the standards of what that might look like.”