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

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Okay, so thank you. It's good to sit with you.

This is a quote from Ajin Segito saw recently and thought to to share it and just say a few words about it.

So, said, generosity is about sharing and not just in material terms it's an attitude to life

it's a response to the interrelatedness that is the basis of all life.

Most importantly, you share dama by advice and by example, aiming one's concern and goodwill for the welfare of others as much as for oneself

helps shift the self view to one in line with cod dependent arising.

Action based on that view of interdependence generates a shared blessing.

The giver feels joy and the receiver feels the effects of kindness everyone gains

morality leads to self-respect and the trust of people around you.

Renunciation draws you out of the grip of the materialist energies that control much of society.

Discernment cuts through the blur of feelings to tell you coolly and clearly what qualities are skillful and what aren't at this moment.

Such discernment is required to steward and moderate energy so that it isn't frittered away on the one hand or

strained on the other. The result is right persistence and that brings around patients to not rush, to allow things

to move at a harmonious rate and to bear with the tangle of social and personal

conundrums that we face. Patience is great for willful got to get it done mindsets.

There's a whole life of cultivation

in this Pormi alone.

So, yeah, John packed a lot into that. So, general. So generosity is about sharing,

is about sharing.

Generosity is about sharing.

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