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

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So good morning, everyone, and welcome to IMC. And I do have an announcement, and I think of this announcement as part of the talk.

It has made me a prelude to it.

For quite a while, I've been wanting our community both in person and online out in the

wider world to be involved in a second large fundraising drive that follows the one we did right after the invasion of the Ukraine

three years ago, where we raised money for save the children and in order to support the

children affected by the war there and a lot of them became refugees going out of the country.

And Save the Children did wonderful work, supporting children and families.

And they've been an organization that's been around for decades, maybe 100 years or something,

doing wonderful work, one of the more greater reputable non-profits around.

And I've been wanting to do it for a long time, for the last year or so.

And it took a while for our community to kind of get organized or properly around this.

And so we finally could do it now. And it's for, say, the

children's emergency fund that goes for children and families and really emergency places

around the world. And things are pretty dire, risk of starvation, all kinds of things.

And the primary places now are places like Gaza and Sudan and Syria and different places

Ukraine still maybe.

And so we started that, the fundraising drive, maybe officially today.

And officially it kind of was posted available on, I think, Friday.

And so last time we did it, we raised $70,000, which I thought

was pretty fantastic. And so we're now launching it again, and this time, and it's a chance,

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