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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So welcome to this fourth talk on title to transform the world.

And it's partly, a big part chosen as a theme in the given the week before the election that we have here in the United

States election that has created a lot of anxiety and a lot of divisiveness and an election which suggests that there might be a lot of

conflict in the wake of it. And And certainly we can get involved in election politics, so getting out the vote, all kinds of things

we can do that together with others can make

a big difference. But here I'm offering something different for now and that is an approach to how to transform the world

that is suitable and may be powerful no matter what the outcome of the election,

no matter what happens, that whatever way that we want to respond,

the way we want to deal with it,

that let it come from these values that come out of this practice.

And so for today, the emphasis is on dignity and respect that Buddhism puts a

tremendous value on our dignity, our value, our self-respect.

And as I said in the meditation,

that the Buddha statues like the one we have here are symbolic representation of

what it's like for human being to be fully inhabiting in the place where they are,

so the Buddha's sitting on the ground,

fully grounded, fully present in this spot.

No question about it. He's here, rooted here, on that spot. And then the upright

torso is with a chest that's kind of a little bit. is a

expression,

expression of a dignified presence,

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