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

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So, good day on this Monday.

And the topic for this week is to continue with what's usually called the Ten Protectors,

the Ten Supports, Supporting Things, that the Ten Helps Helping, Ten Helpers.

And today's protector is Love of the Dharma, Dharma Love.

But then Dharma, what does that mean here?

And I'd like to propose that the essential meaning of Dharma,

more than the teachings of the Buddha, more than anything else, is non-harming.

And so, a love of non-harming, that's the protector.

And it seems a wonderful coincidence that to emphasize this on the day that the United States,

we celebrate it as Indigenous People Day.

And people who have suffered hundreds of years of harm by the European Colonialists who came,

and settlers who came, and sometimes committed tremendous genocide, even right here in California.

And also the Monday after this weekend where the horrendous violence in Palestine and Israel

and Gaza Strip and we have so much experience as human beings with the endless cycles of violence

and the endless cycles of hate when two people hate each other,

then the only solution is to kill each other.

The cycles of hate just escalate.

And then it just continues on and on.

The cycles of this going on, and I think the 60 years of, for more now, 70 years,

80, 100 years of violence in Palestine has shown the cycles that violence doesn't provide a solution.

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