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 third talk on the Uphai Suta.

Those of you are interested in it's in the numerical discourses,

the fifth chapter.

It's Suto, in Bicobodi's translation, Suta 159.

And what I read here is an excerpt from it,

then I'll read it again.

So the Buddha said talking to his main attendant monk Ananda.

It is not easy, Ananda, to teach the dama to others. The dama should be taught to others with five qualities,

when five qualities are established with oneself. Which five? The dama should be taught to others while

thinking I will speak step by step progressively.

The dama should be taught to others while thinking,

I will speak for practical reasons.

The dama should be taught to others thinking,

I will speak grounded in kindness.

The dama should be taught to others thinking,

I will not speak for material rewards.

The dama should be taught to others, I will speak without wounding myself or others.

And one of the ways of understanding this text or interpreting it. Is it not just about how we teach,

teaching the dama, but how we speak to others, that we do it, we speak to others Do we speak in a clear sense of progression and building it building our

explanations or reasons We speak for reasons. We understand the causes and the conditions and the

conditions and the reasons for why we say what we're going to say.

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