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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're going to So hello and welcome to the second talk on the Buddha's teachings related to quarrels, quarrels disputes, and the idea that human beings live in conflict with each other,

was very well recognized by the Buddha.

And not only they have a lot to say about it,

but it could be understood that the core teachings of the Buddha,

even the whole purpose of becoming enlightened,

has to do with creating a world where people are not driven by unethical behavior, that the

core teachings of the Buddha are ethical, with an ethical goal. A person who is

awakened is defined as someone who will not harm anybody at all, including how the name in the

way in which we have disagreements with people. Certainly we'll have disagreements, but to disagree in an argumentative way with hostility and

anger and assertions of power and demeaning other people is not the direction in which the darma teaching, darma practice, the Buddha taught.

He really wants us to take responsibility for our contribution to suffering in the world.

And certainly that's not enough to diminish the suffering in the world just to

look at ourselves, but without that, without a deep look at ourselves and what's going on with us,

we could actually inadvertently continue being models and perpetrators of hostility, of hate, of assertion of power, of all kinds

of ways that continue the endless cycles of harm that has existed in the time

of the Buddha.

So his teachings on quarrels is the topic for this week and one of the ways so the primary

strength of the darma the Buddha taught is the capacity of this practice for us to really take a deep dive in ourselves and understand ourselves.

Not to ignore the world, but I like to think of it as we deep dive inside of ourselves to really see ourselves and free ourselves from the inside out.

Turn ourselves inside out and we turn to the world with a heightened sensitivity and capacity

to care to love without any hostility, without taking on any stress in that process, without any kind of

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