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

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So hello on this Monday morning and happy to be here with you all.

Also quite happy to have had my wonderful colleagues teach while I was gone.

It's a pretty wonderful thing for me to have such wonderful teachers as colleagues, companions, Dharma friends.

I feel like we're kind of a team together now that are teaching here at 7 a.m. on YouTube.

And to know to hear from some of you that I've heard how much you appreciate the so-called guest teachers who come when I'm gone.

And for me it's so wonderful to feel that we're teaching together with them overall.

We're kind of a team, you know, together.

It was nice.

Thank you for, I thank them for being here when I was gone.

And as it turns out that I'll be here this week and then I'll be gone again for two or three weeks.

And so then I'll be back for a couple of weeks, then gone for a few weeks and then back a little bit.

Just be a lot, a lot, a lot like this to the end of the year.

And maybe next year I can settle down to be here more.

So I'm very fortunate to be here today with all of you.

And to continue the series I've been doing for maybe six, seven weeks now on compassion, different aspects of compassion, the foundations for compassion.

And hoping, I'm hoping or trying to expand outwards for you the richness of what compassion is and all the dimensions of it and aspects of it.

So that you can appreciate how to be compassionate in this world, how to bring forth this beautiful quality we have in a way that is nourishing for you and nourishing for others.

It's been the first person I heard really teach this was that it was Dalai Lama that if you want to be happy, be compassionate, care for others.

And so this association with personal happiness and well-being in having compassion, care, love for others is a really profound aspect.

But to find that really, I think it really helps to understand more deeply the different aspects, the different things that come together to support the healthy forms of compassion.

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