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

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Okay.

It's good to practice with you.

Yeah, it's good to practice with you. Yeah, you know, it's like I don't know, I didn't know what I would guide or what I would say or something.

And it's just like, yeah, we gotta find, find our practice.

So no matter how you're feeling, I think it's good that we're here we're here together now,

meaning it's a time for spiritual friendship, Kalianamita.

And it seems like something more has to happen

than just feeling kind of bad together.

But I don't think so. It's actually enough for right now, at least that that is enough.

And Kaliana Mita, that doesn't mean we all have the same views.

This is not a political action committee.

If this were a different election, I would be saying different things.

But given what was kind of, that we were really, yeah, voting on greed, hate, and delusion.

That makes it a special moment.

I don't assume we're all united by ideology, but we are united by a certain orientation to suffering.

We are united by knowing the danger of greed-haden delusion.

We're united by our wish to alleviate suffering in self and other.

And that's Kalyanamita. That's enough. That's enough.

Now, of course, I'd love to say that everything will be okay, but cannot, because it won't.

But something will be okay and something very important.

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