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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So hello everyone and welcome to this fourth talk on the five core principles or foundations for my teachings, the way I offered Buddhist teachings.

And so today, what I like to talk about is the social emotions of love as an umbrella term for all of them,

but certainly friendliness and kindness, goodwill, compassion,

sympathy, appreciation. Appreciation, appreciative joy, empathic joy, sharing joy, and the joy of others.

And a profound form of equanimity of peace,

of non-assertive, non-wavering love in the face of challenges, in the face of challenges, in the

face of, inability to make a difference for people.

We still have some kind of,

our love is still unshakable, equonymous.

So I talked earlier in the week

that one of the foundations that I really appreciate for Buddhism

is the idea of not having any fixed views, not having any

any ultimate philosophy or ultimate this is what's ultimate

but rather a not having that not experiencing the world through the filter of our

philosophies or world views our cultural views, our philosophical and religious views, but actually shedding those

as if they're kind of a filter through which we experience the world. And the reason why I feel so

much so confident in that is for what I talked about yesterday, the naturalistic

orientation to this practice that we do, that we have a

profound wonderful deep capacities that are often overlooked, submerged in the hustle and

bustle life, the challenges of life, the sufferings, the pains, the

betrayals we have, the busyness of trying to survive. the put all those down and put down our views, our opinions, our stories that we are living in all the time.

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