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

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When the Dalai Lama said kindness and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.

What did he mean? Discover the necessity of love

of love in the barren desolate landscapes of hate, misattunment. Thank you. Okay. When the heart's been drying out in the sun or

becoming more brittle, intensity, life.

The heart's been living in a kind of state of forgetfulness around the necessity of kindness,

compassion, love. It can be very powerful and just have a moment of quiver with it. The mind goes to work figuring out how to trace out the implications of our love, what to do in the face of the normity hate just put down those details for now those details of the

effect of dampening the brightness of the love.

Don't worry, in other words, about anything except caring for your heart in this moment.

The only nourishment for your heart is wisdom and love. Thank you. You know, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Without flirting with any tribalism, sense of homogeneity of this group we can say can take some refuge the fact that Sangha is gathered around a commitment to goodness, to non-harme to restraint and care. Part of why Sanga feels good is

is part of why Sangha feels good is this mutuality and sense of a, this is a, oh, this is a, cultural, a little community within society that is trying not to trespass on the hearts of others. Thank you. So whatever goodness means to you,

whatever goodness means to you, abide in it.

An image or word or phrase. is a kind of vibrational frequency

in your own body, heart.

Just abide, one form of another, abide in love. Thank you. You know, You know, You know, The

The There's a recognition that every movement of our mind and body expresses this longing to be happy.

And yes, some of those movements are unwise, maybe they don't work out, but this thread of longing to be well

runs through the entirety of our life.

And the recognition of that engenders a tremendous amount of compassion for ourselves. One who loves.

One who loves themselves, the Buddha says, will not harm another.

Because it does not take much work to trace out the implications of our own experience

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