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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So good morning and welcome to the second talk in a series called To Transform the World. And one of the purposes for me being a Buddhist teacher,

dedicating my life to Buddhist practice,

is to support this world, to be able to teach a path of practice that leads to the end of suffering.

And the more that I know they're suffering in the world,

the more I want to meet it and address it.

And my particular way is through Buddhist practice primarily

that I understand to be pointing to the root causes the very foundation of where suffering and conflict arise.

And that I feel like it's very arise.

And that I feel like it's very important that we address suffering and conflict in all the ways that can alleviate it, but that we shouldn't neglect the root causes.

And since there's very few people who do that. I think I try to specialize in that in some way or that's

what the specialty of Buddhism is. And not to diminish the other ways and the extremely important.

But what does Buddhism have to offer?

What does this practice have to offer the world?

And have to offer the world. And it offers a profound example of a way of living not in conflict, not in contention, not in despair or anger or an anxiety,

because we've seen the roots of those. We've found what gives rise to those difficult emotions.

We've learned how to settle beyond it. We've learned how to let go in a very deep way. But not

the letting go that removes us from the world. Many years ago a teacher of mine said that the Buddha taught the world to sit and meditate.

Mahatma Gandhi taught the world

that it's significant where you sit and meditate.

And so I understood this statement to be

that it's one thing to go meditate alone, to develop peace for

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