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

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I'm seeing as I sit down getting ready to teach here, all the chats that offer such wonderful greetings, both morning greetings and seasonal greetings.

And it kind of makes me kind of feel kind of very happy and delighted to

for to be able to be here

sharing this time, sharing this purpose

of why we're gathered here

and thank you for being here.

So in the way that this was going to unfold here this week, the different forms of love that I get emphasized in Buddhism,

Monday I talked about Anukampa, the word I translate as care. Yesterday, meta, which I mostly translated as friendliness.

And today we have the word Karuna, which is normally translated as compassion.

And so this is one of the inspiring and beautiful qualities of the heart.

But it's kind of a mixed thing because compassion arises, is born from the experience of

suffering in this world. And so the idea is to hold them both,

to hold the suffering of the world,

and then maybe simultaneously

to hold a certain kind of profound sense of goodness within us,

which is compassion, compassion free of fear, free of distress,

free of feeling helpless or hopeless.

Compassion that can flow freely as the simple wish, the aspiration.

I love the word aspiration because it's connected to the word for breath, respiration,

in Latin.

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