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

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So good morning, or good day.

It's remarkable how I speak from the terms of where I'm at, the time zone I'm in.

Please forgive me if I want to be able to be inclusive of all time zones. So hello everyone.

And thank you for being here as I do the last of these talks on To Transform the World.

And I offer these talks in the context of the national and U.S. elections next week,

and all the divisiveness that currently exists,

and the sense of conflict and maybe impending conflict that might be coming.

And I offer it with confidence that it's not necessary to succumb to despair or succumb to

paralyzing fear or to hatred, ill will. We can be confident, I want us all to be confident

that we can make a difference to make this world a better place. And if we can do so in small ways, we can do so in small ways.

We can do it in our communities,

with our friends, our neighbors.

And of course, it's nice to do it more widely.

Nice to go out and, you know, there's people who are going out in all kinds of political parties

to get out the vote, who are actively involved in political action and supporting the

election and other candidates and things like that. There's ways of lobbying governments. There's all kinds of ways of

changing the world. But for me, the most important is that we start with ourselves. We don't

lose ourselves in the action we do.

And I know that back when I was young,

there were people who were very active in the anti-Vietnam war

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