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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello. welcome to this fourth talk having to do with the Uphaii Suta and I'll read it again to you every day at the beginning of each of these

talks and the Buddha talking to his disciple Ananda, his attendant monk,

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

are established within oneself. Which five? The dama should be taught to others thinking, I will speak step by step.

The Damma should be taught to others thinking I will speak for practical reasons.

I will speak with reasons.

The dama should be taught to others thinking I will speak for I will speak grounded in kindness.

The dama should be taught with others thinking I will not speak for material reward.

The Damma should be taught to others thinking I will speak without wounding myself or others.

So, and as I've been saying, I believe that this teaching that supplies to teaching the

dama, that when we're not teaching the dama, that that we can apply this to any way that we can apply this to any way that we speak.

Or anyway, if you're a teacher of any kind, it can be applied to teaching in any way.

And so here today I want to talk about, this list the third piece which is kindness and the word here is

some probably a poly word many of you don't know it's Anu Daya a n u d a y a and d a y a and d a y a and d a also means kindness or so Anu means with or following or directed directing kindness.

And some people will have called,

I have tried different ways because kindness is often associated with Meta.

One of the challenges is when there's all these different words in Polly that are related

having to do with our they're kind of the positive positive social emotions and

and so some people have translated Anudaya as compassion, some people as tender, kindness,

sympathy, all kinds of, it was one of the problems of one of the wonderful, delightful challenges

of translating Polly into English is finding English words for these positive emotions.

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