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

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Greetings, friends.

Greetings.

Wherever in the world you are, good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

And joining us this morning from Mountain View, California, Unceded All Lonely Land.

And lovely to see all the greetings and helloes in chat as we join each other to practice.

So we've been exploring, we've been practicing this week with, with, um,

competing compassion and the way classically it's done.

It is, um, expanded in concentric circles, starting with ourselves,

and then benefactor friends, neutral person, the person we have challenges with,

and the last category is all beings.

So today we have arrived at the last, at the final category.

And this category, get category of all beings, um, is a beautiful one,

is basically compassion, 360 degrees.

It includes everyone, everything, and everyone, including yourself,

includes all the other categories.

It's basically a heart that is, um, expanded, a heart that is expanded in,

in its capacity to be kind, to be compassionate when meeting challenges.

So, so without further ado, oh yes, and one more thing I want to say,

um, there are different ways, there are different ways that this last category,

there are many different ways that it, it is cultivated, and, um,

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