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

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Oh, I think there was one bell, right?

Somebody said no bells for me.

I thought there was one bell, which hopefully you heard.

Maybe not. Hopefully there will be more bells later. I thought there was one bell, which hopefully you heard. Maybe not.

Hopefully there will be more bells later. I'll see.

I can't control the bells here, the church bells. They come and they go. So here we go. It's like the, like the, yeah, so many conditions in life

so many conditions in life

so today as we continue

as we continue with our series

on community, on friendship, on noble friendship, spiritual friendship,

Kaliana Mita, and Sanga, really this relational aspect of the practice,

which the Buddha has said Sanga is all of the path. It's not just half of the practice, which the Buddha has said, Sanga is all of the path. It's not just half

of the path. It's the entirety of the path is, this French, is spiritual friendship, is,

is support of like-hearted, like-minded, like-hearted practitioners.

So, continuing in this theme today, I'd like to talk about what I mentioned a bit earlier,

this suta, from the Angutra and Nicaa for 32, which is called the Sanghāsuta, Sanghaka-suta.

The Sangha-suta, excuse me, is sun again, meaning together, g God, to grasp to hold together,

literally means gathering together, embracing, supporting.

These are the four means of inclusion, embracing, supporting,

care, gathering, protecting, etc.

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