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

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Okay.

So, yeah, good to sit with you.

So a friend, a friend of mine described moving from what she called egocentric life to

to darma-centric life.

And that means that we're moving out of kind of narrow self-referential existence.

So much of our existence can be self-referential.

Moving out of that into the sense of life animated by

darma, darma kind of infusing all spheres of our life.

And that of course includes

our relational lives, the theme for this week,

interpersonal life.

That a darma-centric life blesses the relational realm in many ways. We of course affect each other,

a life is many ripples. And a

darmacentric life, perhaps we say, ripples out joy and safety and peace. Those are the

ripples emanating from the darma heart.

What we might ask, like what makes a life worth living?

And there are many answers to that, but one very good answer is other people, that there are some delights that are simply not possible in isolation. There's some help we can never give ourselves. There's some healings we need others for.

Tony Christian. There is four. Tony Kushner said, the smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one. One is a fiction. From such nets of souls, societies the social world,

human life springs.

The sense of belonging of relatedness,

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